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I am sure they are... they won't miss an opportunity to shake you down.
Dark Sky could have (and most likely would have) had these widgets too but Apple bought DS
Apple probably has a contract to run out with The Weather Channel. Plus they have started integrating Dark Sky into the native app, albeit slowly.
Drag a widget onto another of the same size.
Not following your logic at all. They update native apps all the time and have more widgets than anyone. It's just that widgets are really, really new.
There are two ways Apple could go.
When they bought Shazam, they continued it as it was, with updates and support.
When they bought Texture, they killed it off and used whatever they got to make News+ the less-than-stellar service that it is.
I suspect that Apple wanted Dark Sky for the technology... so I see them taking that tech and folding the feature set into their already-existing Weather app.
so far, I like the old widgets better. For some reason Apple made them less functional. For example, with Todoist, in the old widget I could mark a task as done without it opening the app. The new widget has to open the app to do anything Other than show me information.
This worries me when my Hue light apps update for iOS 14. They currently allow me to control lights right from the widget, I worry that this will no longer work in iOS 14. Not sure why Apple is taking away features.
Sorry my bad it though of Night Sky that did get the update. Not sure if Apple will still update Dark Sky. You might want to hop over to Apples own weather app or other apps that now updated their apps with iOS14 widgets such as Forecast Bar, Carrot Weather or Weather Line all with multiple weather sources and lots of options to make it how you want it to be especially in the first two.
Info on Google's iOS 14 support
blog.google
Easier access to Search, Chrome and Gmail in iOS 14
Search faster with a new Widget for your iOS Home Screen, and make Gmail and Chrome your default email and browser apps with iOS 14.
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This is my reasoning as well. The Dark Sky purchase seems more like acquiring it for the technology. If you look at the iOS 14 weather app, you can already see some of the DS technology being integrated. I can’t see a reason why Apple would want to maintain two separate weather apps going forward.
See also Siri and Beats music for app acquisitions that were integrated into the system rather than maintained as separate apps. workflows, I think, is similar but ultimately not quite the same because there wasn’t an existing Apple app. But it definitely has benefited and even thrived being a first party app.
OP, you should use this thread as a wiki of which 3rd Party apps that already have widgets enabled, so that other people know which apps have been updated.
There's a new update today that says it fixes the widget syncing with the main app.
Spotify is really the only one that I feel like I really need.
It think it's the latter too, as you can see them starting to integrate it into the native weather app.
Also, there's been no update to the app for 5 months.
I suspect that Apple are running out the contract with The Weather Channel, and we will see all the tech from Dark Sky fully in the native weather app. I'm thinking it might be an iOSS thing... "We've revamped the stock Weather app with all the cool technology of Dark Sky..."