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I do not understand the people who buy garbage products they don't need and then complain when they inevitably decompose and attract flies. You literally purchased a light bulb with software. You did this to yourself. It's like setting your yard on fire instead of mowing and then complaining that the yard looks bad.

I deal with shitty technology products every day. Bugs out the ass, terrible UX. When I report the bugs or point out how horrible they are to use, I'm either ignored, or told it's my problem. Do I complain? No, because I've learned that a horrible experience is what I should expect from technology. A shit experience is par for the course. I should really be happy that my phone has not killed me yet. Though seeing as cars are increasingly becoming very large smartphones, that might not last long... If you only knew how horrifying the software for chargers is, you wouldn't walk near one.

>>throwa+(OP)
There's nothing inevitable about this stuff if you avoid The Cloud from the beginning. Hue used to be about that, with the app locally controlling everything and the cloud as just an option. Because of that, all of my Hue bulbs will continue to work just fine. I never used their app in the first place.

Keep that same mindset with any whizbang tech, and you'll mostly be alright. Cheap build quality is something else to watch out for, but that infects "dumb" devices just as much.