Oh, don’t get me wrong. It’s a sound business decision! As we are frequently reminded here (about other websites), if you’re not the paying customer, you’re the product.
It’s also a sound business decision to simultaneously sell $60 $45 versions of the same product, except with special oxygen-free, extra-danceable copper in the LEDs that makes the colors less shitty. Admittedly, that’s still an extra twenty bucks per bulb over these ones, but they have to recoup the cost of not soldering in an insecure WiFi board.
