This really sucks because I paid a shit ton for these bulbs vs their competitors because I liked that they allowed local control natively without needing to mess around with anything to get it to work and had a quality product ... Had I known this would happen I definitely would not have paid the hefty surcharge I did and would have gone with a competing product.
I personally know others who made the same decision. Sounds like a class action suit, similar to when Sony removed the ability to install linux from the PS3.