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Apple Pulls 'FlexBright', Says iOS Apps That Adjust Display Temperature Aren't Allowed
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That's fine, but why did you allow it in the first place!? Who reviews these!? Can just any random terrorist put an app on the app store? Wth...
You think using private APIs is ok? You think using silent audio to keep your app running is ok?
Put that in a Microsoft surface ad.
Ah, I don't even care I'm just stirring you guys up.
I knew this would happen. Wonder how it got on the store though?
Ah, I don't even care I'm just stirring you guys up.
I knew this would happen. Wonder how it got on the store though?
Saw this coming from 10 miles away, which is why I didn't buy it. Nobody here has an excuse if they bought it. Apple is notorious for doing this and MacRumors has repeatedly talked about how Apple is coming out with the same feature in a few weeks. If you want it now, install the public beta which is pretty stable. One of my first thoughts was that it would increase battery drain using some sort of trickery and I wanted no part in that. I'm sure he made a nice little sum off of it by being cute with the way he did it to get it onto the store, so he doesn't want to push things any further and still get paid.
Yeah, and why was it approved in the first place? The reviewers should know a little bit better than this, ...
I can't argue this point, still dumb that it slipped through their approval system in the first place though
I don't see the point to this app anyway. I prefer a white screen. Have no plans on changing it.
As soon as 9.3 comes out I'm turning Nightshift off.
As soon as 9.3 comes out I'm turning Nightshift off.
It's not on by default, just an option that could be used. And the point is this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831986/
And this sort of thing is an example of why I went to Android again.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't a hater comment, they're both great. But if you want to hack around with third party system tweaks, iOS ain't the place to be. I figured when the story of this being approved came up it'd have been a mistake.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't a hater comment, they're both great. But if you want to hack around with third party system tweaks, iOS ain't the place to be. I figured when the story of this being approved came up it'd have been a mistake.
Oh, there are still plenty of low quality apps in the App Store. Plenty. I doubt very seriously that Apple killed this app because of its quality or lack thereof. They likely killed it because its functionality closely resembled a feature that will soon be coming to iOS.
And there is NOTHING WRONG with that. People shouldn't be labeled as a hater because of that.
As a developer I can go on and own how hilarious Apple's App Store review process is - the level of irritation we have to deal with and yet things like this getting approved just shows what level of education and training the reviewers have and how misguided (mismanaged) it is.
Which pretty much apples and has applied for ages to essentially anything that involves humans.
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Or essentially because of the reasons that Apple provided, as mentioned in the article.
This is true, but letting developers "hack around" means that people who don't have good intentions can also do some hacking. I'll take the walled garden that prioritizes security.
Are you serious? This app is violating apple policies on two levels.
First it's a hack by using non public API. An app is self contained and shouldn't be able to change system wide setting in iOS architecture.
Second, the hack involves a fake music player to keep ap (application processor of the soc) awake constantly. This is called a power assertion in iOS (like wake lock in android), which is extremely frowned upon. Even android has started clamping down on it (project Volta last year and an even more stringent API this year). In essence your phone battery relies on the operating system to intelligently lower the soc power into sleep mode as much as possible when screen is off (most of the time in a 24 hrs period). By keeping it awake 24 hrs a day the soc will draw power consistently and shorten your standby battery life by as much as 10x. (Standby power is extremely sensitive to power assertion. Also the app has to be awake even when screen is off just so it can continue to run in the background.)
Source: I worked on iOS operating system.