The company cites research claiming the changes F.lux makes to your screen lighting are better for your health, and Apple is stepping further into the health tech arena. Others suggest that Apple wants to take over F.lux’s game. “I asked him about open source used in a similar way, and he did not answer clearly, but he kept repeating the party line that we should make apps that could use Public APIs.”īy comparison, Android doesn’t require tools to sideload apps or have such strict developer limits on APIs. Why, then, does Apple? Some have suggested it’s because Apple doesn’t like anyone messing with the look of the iPhone beyond what it explicitly allows or that the limitations are intended to keep iOS secure. When Michael asked Richard Chipman, the Apple Rep about other cases that are similar to F.lux, he was evasive. Suddenly, Apple seems “to disagree,” and has put the kibosh on F.lux, informing Michael that he and his team “were not authorized to use the iOS SDK or Xcode for the purpose we did,” Michael said, adding he was told that, “we could not distribute F.lux as we did.” The makers of F.lux took advantage of the new policy.Īs Re/code has it, Michael Herf, one of F.lux’s founders, said, “The last six months of ‘sideload’ press – which Apple didn’t try to stop – had convinced us that Apple would be receptive to an approach like this.” Other than a little update from Apple in September, everything appeared to be fine as far as generally allowing sideloading - until now. In June, Apple changed its stance from previous years to allow users to sideload apps with its Xcode developer tool. ![]() ![]() The sudden change caught F.lux developers off guard since the program has been widely popular and they haven’t had any complaints since Apple opened iPhones and iPads to apps outside the App Store months ago. “He kept repeating the party line that we should make apps that could use Public APIs.”
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