This is beyond annoying. Now I have to decide whether to simply stick with the stuff until none of it works anymore, or support @sonos and it’s crappy bricking strategy by throwing even more money at them
Brian Fitzpatrick @therealfitz@wandering.shop @therealfitz
21 Jan 2020
Wow. Just got a giant "Fuck you for buying a bunch of our shit in the early days" email from @Sonos. /cc @internetofshit

Jan 22, 2020 · 5:16 AM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @Sonos
Isn’t this every piece of hardware that has turned to software driven products? Even car head units that drive your GPS and radio have an end of life for something you paid $20,000-$100,000 for. I know a friend that can’t listen to the radio in their car anymore.
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Yes, but there are two particularly shitty things added here: New hardware won’t work (or update) either unless you get rid of the old pieces, and they have a horrible rebate program that means they brick your devices and call it recycling
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This is shitty. I have a lot of @sonos stuff. Not buying anymore. Whatever ugly bloated features they can't cram in the old hardware aren't worth it I'm sure.
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Replying to @stilkov @Sonos
Why is this a bricking strategy? Which vendor is out there that supports 15 year old based hardware? The bricking strategy has nothing to do with this because it is targetted on newer devices
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Replying to @stilkov @Sonos
I bought my Play:5 2012 - so it’ll be 8 years of updates. There is no law that describes how long hardware should be supported. What would be a good time?
Replying to @stilkov @Sonos
The whole "smart" appliances thing is a disaster. I've an old set of *wired* Mission speakers which sound wonderful and have never needed a software upgrade.
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Replying to @stilkov @Sonos
In case you're tempted to try Teufel's streaming solutions, I warn you. I wasn't able to integrate their streaming devices into my WLAN, which should "just work" if it's a streaming device.
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Its really sad, i was kind of a @sonos ambassador, argueing with the easiness and realibility! Common‘ Guys you can‘t tell me there is no way to operate new and old devices with different software versions...
Replying to @stilkov @Sonos
We software folks should have been able to guess in advance how most of those update-dependent stuff will end up. With our own systems we’re more realistic - sometimes.
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Continue using it and afterwards buy non connected speakers. I have a couple of high end B&W older than 15 years. They saw a couple of device and will a see a couple more before they are obsolete.
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