Bulbs (the expensive part) will still function, just gotta upgrade the $25 bridge. And even without upgrading the bridge, bulbs will still work just fine with

Bulbs (the expensive part) will still function, just gotta upgrade the $25 bridge. And even without upgrading the bridge, bulbs will still work just fine with the older one, as long as you are trying to access them on your LAN instead of while you are outside of home. What Philips did here sounds very reasonable to me imo.