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"Sherlock" was evidently before my time. The most prominent recent example I can think of is f.lux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.lux https://en.wikipedia.or
by AdmiralAsshat 2y ago
"Sherlock" was evidently before my time. The most prominent recent example I can think of is f.lux:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.lux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.lux
That app was doing warm-light adjustment /blue-light reduction before anyone else, and then the major OS vendors all started introducing their own "night mode" settings baked into the OS, and eliminated the APIs to let third-party apps do the same.
- Veuxdo 2y agoAt that point I have to question what the word "app" even means. To me, this is a display setting, not an "app".
- mingus88 2y agoIn Apple terms an app is a unit of software sold in the App Store. F.lux had all the hallmarks of any other tweak-style standalone application. Prefs, launcher, icons, update channel, etc It was so good and groundbreaking that it was adopted by every OS. Victim of it’s own success
- orev 2y agoF.lux is still available and worth it to install on Windows. It has better controls and smoother transitions than Night Light.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoOn iOS its even more shameless. Basically every feature on the device thats new since 2007 was thanks to the jailbreak community. At one point I saw a chart that listed what came from what in iOS. Its like the designers do nothing but see what the teenagers in eastern europe making these tweaks are doing and copy that shamelessly, knowing they can’t sue for any ip theft since its jailbroken software in the first place.