You have already had, Philips Hue. I touched hundreds for your smart bulbs and your lights, I use them day after day, and I am happy to discuss their quality. But it pushes me a little batty when I cannot control your lights because of a giant pop-up announcement.
It happened several times in recent weeks. I launch the Philips Hue application for, let's say, reduce the lights of my living room for a film and boom! I am struck by a contextual screen filling and blocking window windows that can be read as follows: “Extended sale: up to 40% reduction on brilliant days for an extra week!”
Well, so much the better for you, hue! But I'm not shopping right now! I just want to lower my lights! Those I paid!
Of course, in the big scheme of things, pop-up advertisements in smart home applications are not that Big chord. And to be fair, Philips Hue is not the only manufacturer of smart houses to have stuck advertising banners in their applications.
EUFY, for example, has mourned in the sureddit of this brand for pop-up overlays that appear on event videos. Wyze also has history of banner advertising on the interface of its application. And many other manufacturers of intelligent houses clutter their notification flows with “news” on discounts or new products.
We have already accustomed to advertisements on our smart televisions and our players in streaming, but it is a good deal of the devil. If you want a 50 -inch Roku TV for $ 250 or an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K for $ 30, you must support an ad parade in the user interface. Cheap smart televisions and streaming sticks would not be cheap without all advertisements.
I guess I expected more Philips Hue, a premium smart house brand that makes (if you ask me) superior quality products. Hue lights tend to be expensive, but I am ready to pay an additional cost because according to my experience, Hue devices work well and reliably.
For the relatively high entry price, I expected to be left alone inside the Hue application. Instead, I receive these boring pop-ups which must be rejected before I can reach my shade checks.
Now, most manufacturers of intelligent houses offer ways to deactivate pop-ups, although there are a lot of discussions on the operation of parameters. On the Philips Hue application, for example, you can press Settings> Confidentiality and messaging> Communication from Signy (the company that owns Philips Hue), then press No.
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But I am bored to have to worry about this setting. Obtaining full-screen pop-up advertisements in a smart application like Philips Hue's is a bad, complete user experience. Even if I wanted to obtain alerts on the discounts of Philips Hue, there must be a better way than that.
