Death of weather app shows how corporate deals can leave consumers worse off (via IrishTimesBiz)
The internet was indignant. Shifting Dark Sky’s tech to Apple’s “abomination of a weather app” really “sucks” and “might go down in history as one of the dumbest most frustrating things Apple has ever done”, fumed users.
In the pharmaceutical industry researchers think large companies sometimes make “killer acquisitions” of smaller companies purely to bin innovative projects before they hit the market. These deals are disproportionately small enough to avoid scrutiny from antitrust regulators, bolstering the risk of what other academics call “stealth consolidation” that can add up to poorer healthcare.
Alas, it is very easy to understand what has been lost with Dark Sky, one of a string of smaller acquisitions made by Apple, which has sometimes bought companies at the rate of one every three or four weeks.
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