Why Apple refused to Yahoo weather service in iOS 8

When at the beginning of this month, Apple announced iOS 8Many users have noticed that the corporation refused to Yahoo weather service, replacing it on The Weather Channel. Edition Re / code discussed the matter with David Kenny. CEO of the new service, was a former member of the Yahoo board of directors.

Despite the seven-year collaboration, this year, Apple refused to meteorological services Yahoo. Corporation with great difficulty agree to such a move, and, as explained by Kenny, the decisive factor was the provision of a greater range of weather data:

"To convince Apple to replace Yahoo to The Weather Channel, we had to work seriously own service, adding a lot more information about the weather, which is based on geopozitsii users. We have not only increased the number of forecasted days from 5 to 9, but also added a lot of other data. For example, the sunrise and sunset, chance of rain, humidity, wind, etc. "

In Yahoo consider termination of the contract with Apple a huge failure:

"We never thought that someone could so simply to divert our key partner. In fact, The Weather Channel bypassed us, loudly clicking on the nose. This is a huge loss for us "

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If earlier products Yahoo enjoyed nearly 400 million users, but now this figure will inevitably fall. Of course, the company has its own application, which became winner Apple Design Award last year, but not every user will install it on your smartphone.

By reports The Wall Street Journal, recently Yahoo wanted to offer Apple replace the default search service on its own, but in view of recent events, the transaction can not take place.

A few years ago, Apple completely He refused from the built-in Google services. Apparently, now the time has come to Yahoo, although the company still continues to use them in the application data exchange "Shares".

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