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I couldn't agree more. I used to jailbreak my phone just for f.lux when it used to be easier.

So happy it is being cloned but it would've be nice if it was just on the AppStore to begin with.

How about if you didn't have to jailbreak your phone in order to install non-App Store software?

Done [with caveats].

You can compile and sideload any software yourself using XCode and an AppleID. I run Gamma Thingy (a f.lux alternative) on my non-jailbroken iPhone. You can compile and run emulators, use any private API, whatever. Those apps will just never be in the App Store.

Thanks for the explanation.

It is a good point. I recently got a company provided phone and I strongly considered getting an iPhone, especially since it's the dominant platform at my company and most internal apps are developed for it exclusively. However, I started tallying up what functionalities I would have to give up and decided against it, a flux like program being one of them.

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