Hue is spun out of Philips and is only using the Philips trademark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signify_N.V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signify_N.V. (Last

Hue is spun out of Philips and is only using the Philips trademark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signify_N.V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signify_N.V. (Last time I checked, iPhone doesn't _require_ an iCloud account to work, although it still needs to "phone home" to be activated on setup.)