I saw this over the weekend and am trying to find out more info. I've been an f.lux fan for a few years now and saw this blog post.
Anyone got more info?
Apple's product roadmap is littered with the trail of dead 3rd-party programs that did a better job. f.lux can't be unaware of this. Who uses Growl anymore? Now that Finder has tabs, who bothers with Path Finder? Rogue Amoeba went cross-platform and built out a bunch of different apps as soon as Apple finally got their shit together with airport streaming and Airfoil was no longer relevant. They're a predatory organization that knows they can crush you the minute you come up with something interesting. They also don't give a fuck about you. When Path Finder was providing vastly superior handling of cross-platform file operations, Apple responded by forking the crucial parts of Apache closed-source so that the only way to continue to function was through kludging. This is the principal reason Back to My Mac works over Airport hardware and not at all over anyone else's routers: it's an ad-hoc blend of iPv6, SMB, Apache and haxies that changes whenever Apple feels like it because fuck you, they're apple. I think there's a reason all the clever Mac developers are going cross-platform. The leading edge is realizing Apple under Cook looks a lot more like Apple under Sculley than it does Apple under Jobs. I bought a PC for the first time in 15 years.
OsX's attraction to developers, at least initially, was that it was a unix with end users you could sell software to. It was a weird unix with a shit desktop environment you couldn't swap out, but it was better than NT. At first they actively courted NeXT and SGI refugees by presenting themselves as a unix workstation vendor as much as, well, Apple. Those guys never really drank the Kool-Aid, and Apple stopped having to care about them somewhere between the iPod and the iPhone, when they got big enough in consumer devices that they didn't really need anything else. You might only be seeing the results now, but they transitioned to the Microsoft model of "it doesn't matter if you hate us, we have the users" while Jobs was still in charge.I think there's a reason all the clever Mac developers are going cross-platform. The leading edge is realizing Apple under Cook looks a lot more like Apple under Sculley than it does Apple under Jobs.
Apple's walled garden is one of those things that I "know" about but seeing this brings the issue into focus. As a guy who is vmware and WinTel focused with a bit of Andriod thrown in there, I've never bothered to follow the Apple stuff. Neat.I bought a PC for the first time in 15 years.
Yeah, this was one reason why I jailbroke my old iPhone. I hate dealing with Apple software in general.