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>"The phenomenon of Apple releasing a feature that supplants or obviates third-party software is so well known that being Sherlocked has become an accepted term used within the Mac and iOS developer community"

TIL.




I think “Fluxxed” would have been a better term. Really captures the spirit of the thing.


Flux was sherlocked, to be sure, but sherlocked has been around as a term since 2002 or so, while f.lux was a much more recent victim, from 2015 or so.


Flux actively came out and said if their feature was added to iOS they would be happy.


Except that the term is about 15 years older than when it happened to f.lux




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