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Re:Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights by zorpner on Monday December 14, 2015 @10:53PM (#10735811)
As relevant today as when it was written: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030728-00/?p=...

People will blindly follow a tutorial online that tells them how to activate this option, and continue to contact Philips for support. I've worked on products that have these unsupported/advanced modes, and customer queries on them are constant and time-consuming, even to simply dismiss (and, of course, those customers then go on to leave bad reviews, et cetera).

Re:Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights by hcf on Monday December 14, 2015 @11:06PM (#10735869)
The Chromebook method (to disable write protect) requires you to open the device and remove a specific screw, it's beyond just blindly following instructions.
Re:Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights by motoboi on Monday December 14, 2015 @11:33PM (#10735945)
Is this screw method used so you lose guarantee if you change the software?