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The goodbye Dark Sky deserves.

I’m not over the fact that Apple killed Dark Sky, the best weather app ever, and replaced it with… nothing. And this post does a great and delightfully detailed job of explaining exactly what made Dark Sky special:

Instead of conveying wind direction using text (“NW” or “Northwest”), the app uses arrows! If the wind shifts directions throughout the day, I can feel the wind direction changing using my body.

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