[guywithabike]

It's very likely that the team that said "yes" is not the same team that said "no". Apple is a big company. There's more than one person there.

[anchpop]

Either way it demonstrates that their judgement was flawed

[dllthomas]

Or their judgement is sound, and they correctly assessed that the weirdness of f.lux or the thresholds of their userbase had changed in the intervening 7 years.

[bryanrasmussen]

IF they first approached in 2009 and then had years of promises it follows that the intervening years should be 5 at the most. but maybe quite a bit less.

[dllthomas]

Ah, yeah, good catch!

I think it doesn't really eliminate the possibility, though, with different numbers.