Geekbench provides nothing.
Except a rough understanding of how much slower one computer is versus the other. For your iPad mini that's a fifth of the single-core speed of an iPad mini 2, which will get Night Shift.
How many cpu cycles do you think it takes change screen temp?
How many CPU cycles do you think should be left free for the active app, after the system has done it's thing? Maybe Apple thinks the iPad mini's A5 chip is already underpowered to run Safari (without Night Shift, Content Blocker or Split View) in the snappiness they want to achieve. Maybe the few iDevices with an A6 chip are not worth the effort to rewrite libraries in 32-bit. Maybe going 64-bit-only makes development easier in the future. Maybe it's a combination of reasons.
I think only developing for 64bit OS's explanation is far more reasonable, although not entirely explanatory as to why developing it for 32bit versions of iOS would've been that taxing on Apples large resources.
Programming something twice is always a large taxation, because it is unnecessary work. Reusable code is what makes programmers efficient. 32-bit code has no use in the future. And Apple wouldn't get applause for doing the effort. People would take the new feature for granted and complain about planned obsolescence anyway, because their old devices would run just a tiny bit slower.
Again, F.lux works perfectly well on old devices.
But it could cause problems with every single update. The point is, Apple can't control it's perfect behavior and therefore won't allow it to run constantly in the background and change the look and feel of every foreground app. This kind of access is not provided to any third party developer on iOS, not on old and not on new devices, not in the past and not in the future. This is a platform-specific constraint, live with it or leave iOS for good.
I would have continued to use F.lux either way, as I would've continued to jailbreak either way.
And in doing so, you are leaving Apples way and are yourself responsible for how smooth the system is running. Jailbreakers have activated all kinds of features on older devices, claiming they're running fine. Siri on iPhone 4 and what not else. I've decided against jailbreaking like most people.
I commented on their lack of support for "older" devices like the iPhone 5 (which is still a very capable phone), as it to me it sends an obvious message from Apple to its customers.
And the message is that Apple is doing the 64-bit transition sooner and quicker than anyone expected. Not only to make iDevices from as early as 2013 faster, but to create a bigger chance for using the same code under iOS and OS X. The whole Metal framework exists in 64-bit land and it aims at graphic-intense cross-platform mobile-and-desktop applications. This is the real deal, not if some new convenience feature is available on a certain older device. The ability to use Night Shift on an iPhone 5 is unimportant to the future of the iPhone platform.
Some people think that its perfectly acceptable to upgrade your phone every year, or biyearly. Apple has instilled a sense of it as being normal.
It's been the european telcos who invented 2-year contracts with subsidized cellphones long before smartphones even existed.
As a consumer, I will decide where and how I spend my money. A lot of my decisions are made based on previous experiences, and how I perceive the moral behaviour of a company to be.
And your judgement isn't universal for everybody.
It is why I don't use any google services, and don't use a microsoft OS.
Rubbish, most of their products and services are just bad even if you buy their newest device. That's the main reason why they are avoided. Some people maintain older Windows and Office versions, because they provide a better experience for them than their newest iterations. On Apples part, you do want an iPad mini 4 with Night Shift, you just don't want to pay for it again. If you win the lottery and money suddenly is no longer a problem, your view on Apple will change dramatically. Whereas you will keep avoiding Googles free services and Microsofts broken OS.
Radeongate has left me feeling that Apple are a bunch of arseholes that couldn't care less about its customers - deciding to only repair their flawed laptop after a class action law suit was building steam. Apple, to me, is slowly slipping into a similar hole as the others, and I am slowly moving toward linux.
You want to switch OS's, because of a hardware defect in a graphic chip (which Apple offered to repair anyway) ? Makes (no) sense to me.
Nothing to do with entitlement. It has to do with observation and making decisions based on those obsevations - irrespective of how they may be perceived by others.
Do what you want, but don't keep us informed. This is not the Ubuntu on Phones forum. We already decided for iOS and want to read rumors about it's future. We know it's traits or shortcomings if you like and have chosen it anyway. Night Shift only continues a trend in which Apple enables features previously available on more open systems (like third party keyboards, browser add-ons etc.) without giving up tight control about what's happening in iOS. That's why no matter how buggy the app, a single push on the home button always sends the phone back in a stable state, ready to make a call. This is the experience Apple wants to provide, not what you want to see fit.
