A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement

Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by nathankunicki on Thursday January 14, 2016 @06:12PM (#10905543)

Offering up a loaf of bread pre-sliced isn't rocket science either, but someone has to have the idea first, and executed it in a way that other people say "Wow why didn't I think of that before." or "Huh, I could really find this useful."

At the very least Apple could offer acknowledgement.

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by tacos on Thursday January 14, 2016 @06:23PM (#10905611)

Tweaking color temperature has been done in Hollywood since... well, color. You won't see a window on a set that hasn't been treated to balance indoor and outdoor light. Tinting flashbulbs is common. Film editors select different bulbs and gels in tiny cubicles during late night razor-and-tape editing sessions. When video got popular in the 70s, they nudged the tint control. Mid-80s Amiga video games shifted from day to night -- shadows too! TVs ship with day/night/game modes. 10 year old car navigation systems automatically switch colors at night. There's literally nothing new under the sun.

EDIT: yes, you can convert light to orange. http://www.hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by nitrogen on Thursday January 14, 2016 @06:57PM (#10905866)

My grandparents had a TV from the 1970s, possibly 1960s, that would automatically adjust the color balance to match the room lighting. It really is an old idea.

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by tacos on Thursday January 14, 2016 @07:10PM (#10905957)

Shipped on LCD TVs from multiple manufacturers in 2008, too: "new TVs automatically tweak their on-screen colors to complement say, the orange glow of incandescent lights in the evening or the bluish tint of midday sunshine." Six months before F.lux shipped.

http://www.popsci.com/tested/article/2008-06/tuner-tv

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by amlgsmsn on Thursday January 14, 2016 @06:31PM (#10905660)

>Tweaking color temperature has been done in Hollywood for nearly 100 years

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.

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by brians on Thursday January 14, 2016 @08:18PM (#10906367)

No they haven't. There's no TPM in modern Apple computers of any brand. And there's certainly nothing like the NGSCB Nexus, which I'd think essential to calling something "literally Palladium."

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by aaron42net on Thursday January 14, 2016 @11:04PM (#10907097)

There's a TPM-like mode with hardware isolation built into ARM for years, used for disk encryption keys, DRM, auth keys, fingerprints, etc on IOS and Android. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_execution_environment

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by fanf2 on Sunday January 17, 2016 @05:04AM (#10918999)

The secure enclave on iOS devices is basically a TPM. See https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by coldtea on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:23AM (#10908553)

>Then why was it impossible to do on iOS (iPhones and iPads) since 2007?

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.

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by onion2k on Friday January 15, 2016 @03:23AM (#10907944)

Offering up a loaf of bread pre-sliced isn't rocket science either

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.

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by oh_sigh on Friday January 15, 2016 @12:02AM (#10907308)

And open themselves up to a lawsuit? Nope. Just keep pretending like it's obvious. Even though we've had blue-tinted screens for decades and no one came up with a similar feature.

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by rangibaby on Friday January 15, 2016 @03:08AM (#10907902)

Backlit displays have only replaced CRTs in the last 10 or so years. I don't recall old monitors having a problem with being blue.

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by iSnow on Monday January 18, 2016 @02:10AM (#10923020)

They had. In the 1990's I worked frequently into the night and owned a CRT with color profiles. After the sun went down, I switched to a more warm profile.

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