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Theoretically, Apple could revoke/blacklist the signing certificate for the OSX F.lux app.



That's true, but it would be both extremely petty and a violation of the spirit of the Developer ID program, which is to only revoke Developer IDs in the case of malware. Not because you don't like what they are doing with wholly unrelated applications.


The way this was distributed, everyone who wanted to install had to sign the binary with their own certificate.


Notice the parent mentioned the desktop app, not the mobile app.




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