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Not shown: the part where the Hue consumer product line takes a nose dive, resulting in an organizational shuffling, the loss of some jobs, and general agony an
by MrZongle2 11y ago
Not shown: the part where the Hue consumer product line takes a nose dive, resulting in an organizational shuffling, the loss of some jobs, and general agony and frustration on the part of everybody in the division except for the Boss, who moves on to another position because he/she was able to demonstrate how they squeezed profit out of the product.
- pmontra 11y agoAlso not shown: when the current hub technology is discontinued and replaced with something newer and better and incompatible and you need to replace all the lights in your house unless you want to stick forever with the old hub. Ops, new lights and other stuff that talks with the hub won't work with the old one so you hope you'll never need anything new anymore. Probably not something somebody in this kind of things does.
- danieldk 11y agoFYI: it uses the ZigBee standard, so it is likely that it will always be compatible with some third-party hubs and lights. I also expect that newer iterations of the standard will have backwards compatibility. That makes this choice of Philips worse: they implement a standard, but then choose to ignore devices based on (probably) identifiers (and probably introducing incompatibilities). It's toxic to the whole ecosystem. I think that some of their marketing material stated that they were ZigBee-compatible. So, I guess I can now (theoretically) sue them as a customer.