That's not what that expression meant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

Ehhhh, it's a grey area. They are definitely in the 'embrace' stage, but they're doing it on iOS, where f.lux doesn't really have a presence. You can argue that makes it different, or you could argue it's close enough.

That is a story from a week ago. But news about flux pop on hacker news for as long as I read hacker news. And about that apple feature, I did not get that also, so what if they implemented it (and did not allow 3rd party apps to do it)? It`s not like they have to check if there is an app for something that they like to put in the OS (and there is an app for almost everything now).. Btw, I use Android primarily because of customization options, there was not one thing I could not do on Android which I needed and there were some really advanced stuff that I wanted from a phone :)

Back in the olden days (System 7~8) Apple would actually buy out the third party tools they wanted to add to the OS (MenuClock, WindowShade, etc). Then Steve Jobs came back and they just started Sherlocking developers instead...

They also bought third party tools under Steve Jobs (e.g. SoundJam MP, now known as iTunes)