That would be annoying and could well have pushed me off the platform. I guess I avoided that* because I downloaded the local mobile sdk for the hue lights earl

That would be annoying and could well have pushed me off the platform. I guess I avoided that* because I downloaded the local mobile sdk for the hue lights early on, and coded up an app which met my peculiar needs, never looking back. I always figured the bulbs needed firmware updates to be pushed to them from the official app, so I just never initiated that, and so it never became an issue. I still regularly build the iOS app and use it to variously control the lights. *Not to say that making ones own mobile clients is in anyway a for-everyone solution, but rather something only a picky mobile developer would do.