IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business::IBM will sell The Weather Company to Francisco Partners, a tech-focused private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum, it announced Tuesday.
In before a fascist wannabe billionaire buys the weather channel just to destroy any credibility it has and hijack the climate change debate. Even change the name of weather channel to something like “Y”.
Let the enshittification begin.
He’ll probably rename it to 🌦️
*Databases crash noises
This timeline is disturbingly absurd, making it increasingly likely that we could indeed face such a situation.
Too late, it’s been shit for years now.
Same firm that acquired LogMeIn (LastPass) and MyFitnessPal–and after those acquisitions both MyFitnessPal and LastPass quickly moved to worsen the free tiers of services in favor of their paid subscription models.
That’s incredible. Both of those apps INSTANTLY became so much worse after they were bought out.
LogMeIn has way more free offerings now than just a couple of years ago. Source: used to work at LogMeIn. You are talking out of your ass.
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TIL IBM owns the Weather Channel.
Weather that is a good decision or not remains to be seen
Please don’t make Weather Underground shitty. It’s the only weather website that gives accurate information around here.
They’ve been shitty since TWC bought them. Maybe a little before when they killed their old web interface which was informative and fast and replaced it with a new design that was difficult to read information, and worst of all, slow as fuck. That’s about when I stopped subscribing.
worst of all, slow as fuck.
So true. Waiting 30 seconds to see the temperature is ridiculous.
It takes all of 2 seconds to open the door. Guess what? The temperature is hot.
Because it’s so easy to crack the door when you’re 20 stories up…
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Cool, could they sell Redhat to someone not actively evil, and fuck right off now?
Does anyone know of a great alternative weather app?
Windy
Going outside
Doesn’t help me see what the weather will be like in a few hours or days from now, which is the whole point of forecasting.
Pshh, my uncle could feel a storm coming with just a feeling in his bad knee.
So do I just call him or
His hearing goes when a hurricane approaches so I’d send him a Fax
TIL IBM owned the weather app.
If you have The Weather App, the IBM logo is on the splash screen every first launch.
Ah. I guess I just use the one that comes with my iPhone.
Today I learned that IBM is still a major thing
IBM will still sell you a brand new, updated mainframe in 2023.
They’re also in the open source software space (IBM owns Red Hat, a software company that has a lot of projects for Linux. Red Hat has their own Linux distro too)
Which threats users to had their subscription cancelled when they share the source code according to GPL.
Yeah. I agree with ya there, Red Hat screwed over Alma and Rocky with that decision. I can see the utility of those two distros for testing before committing to RHEL.
Plus, if Oracle has room to try to be the “good guys”, you’ve really screwed up
We did away with that pesky business failures. Now all corporate are eternal.
I work with their iseries servers daily, they are very much still a thing
But that is where I get all the news I need.
