What Dark Sky did great imo is hyperlocal weather notifications, of course, but above all UI: in a few seconds I know what to expect for the day when it comes to temps, precipitations and UV, hour by hour and for the week, all by staying on the main page. People fail to understand how much more costly it is to develop for Android. I thought paying a few bucks a year for Dark Sky was a great deal but you should have seen the negative reviews when it arrived on the Play Store. The only way to make a weather app profitable is to bury it in ads or by charging a subscription which most people don't want to pay. For each weather source you add to an app, the cost of running the app goes up. Most of them focus too much on information quantity rather than accessibility or UI prettiness rather than usability. Considering how bad your average app UI is, and the fact that the amount of info that needs to be displayed makes weather apps one of the most challenging categories in this regard, then it's no surprise most of them suck.
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