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Re:Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store? by tailspin2019 on Friday January 07, 2022 @06:15PM (#29846307)
Not directly a comment on the article, but the author’s app Lunar looks very impressive:

https://lunar.fyi/

I love the ability to add an external light sensor to provide adaptive brightness to external displays!

The name is a bit unfortunate. I assume it’s no relation to “Luna Display” but has some scope for confusion there…

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Re:Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store? by zuhsetaqi on Saturday January 08, 2022 @01:23AM (#29849131)
https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl

This is an alternative which is more macOS like design wise. I first used lunar but I find the design horrible.

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Re:Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store? by tailspin2019 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @10:12AM (#29852358)
Ah yes, I’ve used MonitorControl and it’s excellent.

Apple should give the author a chunk of cash and build it into macOS.

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Re:Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store? by killingtime74 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @05:28PM (#29857142)
If they wanted they would get an intern to rebuild it. They did similar with the Apple Watch keyboard
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Re:Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store? by alin23 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:45AM (#29853365)
Oh man.. I wasn’t aware the design is that bad.

When I launched M1 support in Lunar, István Tóth which was using Lunar at the moment, dedicated a lot of his time to port Lunar’s solution into MonitorControl.

He also created the Big Sur-esque native redesign that’s currently present in MC. I loved it and was kinda envious on it, Lunar’s QuickActions menu was always kinda useless.

I tried to adapt István’s UI choices to Lunar’s style in Lunar 5 but I’m still not getting close to a native design. I’ll keep this for now as a lot of people liked it and bought a license because of it.

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Re:Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store? by zuhsetaqi on Saturday January 08, 2022 @03:49PM (#29856053)
I guess it's a good thing to have options especially in terms of design, since it's a taste after all.
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Re:Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store? by alin23 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:35AM (#29853268)
Yes, it’s unfortunate. I wasn’t aware of Luna Display when I launched Lunar in 2017.

I still get emails from people calling my app Luna Display, although they clearly use and have an issue with Lunar.

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