> So, Philips Hue users need a new $60 bridge after 8 years? Looking at the wiki [1], v2 wasn't released until October 2015, and presumably v1 remained on some

> So, Philips Hue users need a new $60 bridge after 8 years? Looking at the wiki [1], v2 wasn't released until October 2015, and presumably v1 remained on some shelves for a couple months after that. So more like they need a new $60 bridge after 4 years. This bothers me about phone updates - my manufacturer provides "two major version updates" - but in the case of my particular phone, it launched one version behind mainline, received the first update couple weeks after launch, I bought it when it was almost a year old because of the release cycle, and got the "second" update two weeks after purchase. They followed their update policy, but still leaves the public hanging. All that said, I wouldn't buy smart lights anyway, and this situation doesn't bother me and seems like a somewhat reasonable timeline, since it doesn't totally break their functionality. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_Hue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_Hue