F.lux for iPhone and iPad Launches in Beta Outside of App Store

[techguy9]

They just pulled f.lux for iOS at Apple's request.

https://justgetflux.com/sideload/

Damn, looks like I downloaded it right before it was pulled.

 

[prairie]

I have it on my 6s and it's killing the battery, hard. Anyone else notice that?

 

[techguy9]

I have it on my 6s and it's killing the battery, hard. Anyone else notice that?

Not for me on my Air 2 and 5s.

 

[Shirasaki]

No matter what you do, you need to know, at least, you cannot tell others u are using private stuff to develop app?
That is the first thing I read from Apple notification.

 

[TheIguana]

Maybe we should all just email tcook@apple.com and ask him why Apple can't just bring this darn feature to the iOS code base. At least his secretary's will get a giggle out of all our collective pining for better sleep.

 

[chriscrowley]

I'm going to have to agree with you here.

I was hoping that the move to Xcode 7 allowing anyone to build and install apps on their device would result in a small but unique open source community for iOS devices. Applications that would not be allowed in the app store because of their license (GPL) or because they do things in a non-Apple approved way could flourish here, and provide burgeoning developers with code to look at and learn from.

Instead, we see the first app released in this manner using a binary blob, totally against the spirit of open source and hacking on your own stuff. I really don't want this to become the norm for outside-the-app-store apps.

And patents are no excuse. Releasing source doesn't get around them.

I was so hoping that it was going to be on Github, instead it's a binary blob. At least if it was open sourced we could still download it and compile (if it was forked in time). I wish I was quick enough to download the zip file, binary blob or not, before they pulled from their website.