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The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity
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I swear, these bad EULA updates that basically force users to “accept the agreement, or we’ll brick your device” needs to fucking stop and be made illegal. The price that’s set for a product, especially a damn physical product, should include the acceptance of an existing EULA, and it should be honoured even when new ones come out and the user chooses to not accept the new agreement. You’ve basically never owned the product if companies can just pull the rug underneath you, and render your hardware useless. And you can’t foresee such changes too; a predatory company can acquire one that you’ve trusted and pull this shit. It’s borderline daylight larceny.
In some places you're legally allowed to reject a product and get a refund if you don't agree with the EULA. Wonder of there'll be reforms allowing people to do that of they don't accept a revised EULA.
Still very annoying if it's something you installed or got installed, even if fully refunded.
"You’ve basically never owned the product if companies can just pull the rug underneath you, and render your hardware useless"
See, that's the thing, as far as the companies are concerned this is their product not yours. You'll own nothing and you will like it