[phn]

I love f.lux but sheesh, their stance looks like they're just playing the game to get their stuff on the app store, ignoring why apple doesn't want them there. What APIs are they using exactly?

I can see why apple might not want some app that messes with the display's color (controlled user experience and all that), and (please someone correct me if I'm wrong here) potentially access everything that's written on the screen.

The only way I see similar functionality happening on iOS land is through an accessibility feature 100% controlled by apple. No money for f.lux here, I guess...

[thedufer]

CLUT is explained well enough elsewhere in this thread that I won't repeat, but it seems very clear that the API allows them to change color palettes but does not do anything like read/write access to the screen. As far as I can tell, the worst thing they could do with it is make the screen go all one color so nothing is visible. Which would suck for the user, but the app writer gains nothing and would be quickly caught (if it even made it through the review process).

[izacus]

They're not trying to get their app on AppStore. They got a warning from Apple for allowing people to sideload their app without the AppStore.

[phn]

I have been following the story.

From the article:

> f.lux has been ready to ship for iOS devices for four years, but we can't put our app in the app store without Apple's help.