Philips reverses decision to close the Hue Platform

Re:Philips reverses decision to close the Hue Platform by sspiff on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @09:06AM (#10744287)

Exactly this. Their management / decision makers aren't familiar with the hacker mindset, but they responded to public criticism quickly by acquiescing to the demands. I don't so anything bad about this.

They mad a public about face, admitting that their decision was not the right one for their audience, and changed it. That's not easy to do for most people, let alone companies.

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Re:Philips reverses decision to close the Hue Platform by lightbritefight on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @12:35PM (#10745800)

They didnt really admit the decision was bad for the audience. They said "well, we were just looking out for you, and highly recommend you doing what we want, but I guess you can do that too, but you shouldnt."

The tone is very much "we did nothing wrong." I don't expect more, but I was hoping for it.

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Re:Philips reverses decision to close the Hue Platform by jhall1468 on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @12:48PM (#10745881)

I disagree. The tone was more akin to "This really doesn't impact a lot of our customers, but the customers it did impact caused a significant (unexpected) response."

That's perfectly valid. They felt that it was a minority doing it (which is probably true) so this would be a non-issue. It wasn't, so they reversed it.

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