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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by sbov on Thursday January 14, 2016 @06:42PM (#10905741)
f.lux is just a feature, not a product.

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.

Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by coldtea on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:27AM (#10908558)
Well, you can take it to ridiculous levels calling everything "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.

Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by beemoe on Friday January 15, 2016 @09:00PM (#10913827)
I aggree but was amused to find and actual word count "product": https://github.com/guardian/gu-word-count
Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by coldtea on Saturday January 16, 2016 @03:31AM (#10914716)
That's from the Guardian newspaper -- it's their word count component from their online site that they give the source as open source.
Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by r00fus on Thursday January 14, 2016 @07:16PM (#10905994)
Until f.lux becomes a platform just like browsers, applications (see Photoshop) and operating systems, yeah... it's just a feature.

No one is writing stuff for f.lux.

Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by tekromancr on Thursday January 14, 2016 @07:26PM (#10906053)
No, it's an application. Applications aren't necessarily platforms. By your logic, Super Meat Boy is a feature.