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Smart bulbs turn dumb: Lights out for Philips as Hue API goes dark

JohnFen

Naturally

If you're relying on third party services for something to work, you need to expect that it will randomly fail to work. Oh, and it'll be hacked.

This is the thing that makes the current view of IoT unbelievably stupid -- their reliance on third party services. It's not technically necessary, and give little benefit to the end user. It's only required to allow companies to engage in ever-more data mining.

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