If you feel flux is bad designed, lacks options that you need, and needs to evolve into something that behaves smarter; perhaps we can agree the problem is not just 'make my screen more red'
You present your case as a simple tweak, there will definitely be thousands of people who also need a 'super-simple option' (I read it in my mind as "Just add a setting!"), so I guess finding good defaults and packing enough flexibility without a twelve pages setting screen would also be non trivial but appreciated.
I'm saying, recognizing that what we want from something like flux can be as complex as we want it to be, and developing an ecosystem of those would be interesting and hopefully very beneficial to everyone.
At the very least Apple could offer acknowledgement.
EDIT: yes, you can convert light to orange. http://www.hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...
Then why was it impossible to do on iOS (iPhones and iPads) since 2007?
I find it alarming that so many folks are supporting the actions of a company to control and inhibit innovation, literally hurting consumers' health in the process, in order to control and maintain their forced 30% cut of third party program revenues.
They have literally implemented Palladium and Trusted Computing and it looks like people cannot get more of it.
Just because nobody had baked the feature in.
It was also impossible to have a screensaver on iOS, but this doesn't mean screensavers are a new thing.
True, and trying to sell a "bread slicing" service, as a separate product to selling bread, is very obviously going to fail as soon as bakers buy bread slicing equipment. f.lux are trying to sell bread slicing, not bread.
Browsers are just a feature, not a product.
Applications are just a feature, not a product.
Operating systems are just a feature, not a product.
Depending upon your POV, just about everything can be dismissed as "just" a feature.
But that doesn't change the fact that some things, like word count or auto-adjusting color temperature, are at the end of the feature-product spectrum, and are better off as "just features".
That doesn't mean someone can't try to sell a dedicated program based on just those things.
But nobody should be surprised if other programs or OSes incorporate the same stuff as merely a feature they offer.
No one is writing stuff for f.lux.
Dimming with the sun just contributes even more to SAD in the winter.
1. It's a feature, not a product. And a simple one, conceptually. As much as I'd love to have competition in apps offering this functionality (like keyboards), "make my screen more red" isn't exactly rocket-science.
2. It's not well-designed. Their messaging mixes up two very different use-cases: matching the color of your room and aiding your sleep. That's ok - I use it for both - but there's no way to customize it. Even a super-simple option would let me communicate that I only want it on after 10:30 pm, a couple hours before I go to sleep, when I darken my room. Instead I need to deal with it automatically turning on every day at 4:30 pm, which makes something that should be simple very cumbersome (I have to manually turn it on and off every day in the winter).