"I feel that people sticking up for Apple here is some variant of the Stockholm syndrome."
Brand loyalty is a reasonable thing.
Look, most software for most people since the dawn of the personal computer era has been about begging, cajoling, threatening, and screaming at your vendor to support your pet feature.
Apple has succeeded in part because it by and large does listen to its customers, it just usually takes far too long to do it the "Apple way" ... but not so long that one wants to switch platforms.
In this case, I filed feedback with Apple (which does get read), asking for f.lux support on iOS and/or documented APIs they can use. I'll also file this away in my "reasons Apple sucks" list. This list tends to grow and shrink over time, which means I have some faith in being patient. With Microsoft in the 90s it just grew unbounded until Windows 2000 was released.
The open source world of course allows me to tweak whatever I want, and I did own an Android Samsung GS3 once, but couldn't really stand it. The Linux desktop (ran one from 1994 - 2001) doesn't suck but it makes my eyes bleed: not my thing once I switched to OS X.
Brand loyalty is a reasonable thing.
Look, most software for most people since the dawn of the personal computer era has been about begging, cajoling, threatening, and screaming at your vendor to support your pet feature.
Apple has succeeded in part because it by and large does listen to its customers, it just usually takes far too long to do it the "Apple way" ... but not so long that one wants to switch platforms.
In this case, I filed feedback with Apple (which does get read), asking for f.lux support on iOS and/or documented APIs they can use. I'll also file this away in my "reasons Apple sucks" list. This list tends to grow and shrink over time, which means I have some faith in being patient. With Microsoft in the 90s it just grew unbounded until Windows 2000 was released.
The open source world of course allows me to tweak whatever I want, and I did own an Android Samsung GS3 once, but couldn't really stand it. The Linux desktop (ran one from 1994 - 2001) doesn't suck but it makes my eyes bleed: not my thing once I switched to OS X.