Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights
I&#x27;ll never understand why companies make such customer hostile decisions.  I can&#x27;t see any upside to this and I can&#x27;t imagine what the discussion looked like when implementing this decision.  My (admittedly cynical) guess is that it was one part &quot;We&#x27;re fielding a lot of support questions on products that aren&#x27;t ours and our malfunctioning&quot; and two parts &quot;Our customers will be more motivated to buy Philips Hue products since they&#x27;re already invested in the existing system&quot;.<p>The first argument is out the door because now they&#x27;ll just get a lot of support questions around many more products that don&#x27;t work.  The second <i>might</i> happen for existing customers, but I&#x27;m now going to avoid this product as a future customer because <i>compatibility is a feature</i>, and for me, and I&#x27;d think <i>anyone</i> who is looking to purchase a tool that manages lighting&#x2F;small electrics around the home, compatibility is easily the #1 or #2 feature.  If there were a choice between a lightswitch that worked with a wide array of lightbulbs, and one that worked with only one company&#x27;s bulbs, guess which one I&#x27;m buying?