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pscooter63 said:

Having never gotten any up to now, I have some questions for current users.

I presume these lumen ratings apply when every LED in the bulb is driven at 100% output? Thus any color variant will be some degree dimmer, depending on the hue you choose?

So I’m thinking this new 100W equivalent will be closer to 75W in practice?

Yup.  The math is pretty nasty though, because Hues don't just stack RGB LEDs to make white. They typically have at least four but sometimes five LEDs, being RGBW or RGB with warm and cold white.  Additionally they'll dial in red or blue to increase or decrease the color temp which means some tones of white are brighter than pure white.  Daylight white on my gen-3 strips for example is brighter than pure white.

By and large for whites you'll get *in the ballpark* for lumens.  Start dialing out to fancy colors though and the brightness can drop off a cliff.  I don't think the RGB LEDs are anywhere near the lumens levels of the white LED(s).

Ofer said:

Any word on whether the new bulbs will support the Thread protocol?

The bulbs never will.  The hub will, according to Signify, get Thread support at some undefined future time.

professorsteve said:

Apple should drop Facetime which is buggy anyway.

I've been using FaceTime to keep in touch with family overseas for about 8 years now.  It's been consistently solid throughout that time. I can't imagine how you're managing to break it.

Yeah, not sure what The Verge was thinking with that article TBH.  It's not like OneCast exactly flew under the radar.  

davgreg said:

Still a sealed shut battery compartment and vampire video (Intel graphics), right?
Still no USB 3 ports, right?

No thanks.

It has USB 3 (3.1 in fact). USB A != USB 3.