> Today we call on Apple to allow us to release f.lux on iOS, to open up access to the features announced this week, and to support our goal of furthering research in sleep and chronobiology.
I'm confused, why do they want this? Night Shift does what f.lux does. Apple opening up the APIs to allow f.lux to run on iOS seems rather pointless, since the OS is already doing the same thing.
Would anyone care to actually answer my question, instead of just downvoting? I didn't realize this was one of those "bury anyone who's not anti-Apple" threads.
You quoted it yourself: "to support our goal of furthering research in sleep and chronobiology." F.lux isn't just trying to sell an app. Also, Apple has a history of releasing user-friendly but very bare-bones, feature-light tools; f.lux presumably wants the option of releasing a richer app that does things Night Shift doesn't.
From what I understand, Night Shift does basically the same thing as f.lux. f.lux has been out for years, and I'm not aware of any particularly innovative changes done to it in that time.
I'm confused, why do they want this? Night Shift does what f.lux does. Apple opening up the APIs to allow f.lux to run on iOS seems rather pointless, since the OS is already doing the same thing.