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> I find it hard to believe .... until it does happen as they promised ... > sound systems that may eventually "cease to function". Not just some part of it

• throwaway2016a 9y ago
  I find it hard to believe for technical reasons. From what I can tell in the Network traffic the speaker actually talks directly to Spotify for instance. They would need to have a remote kill switch and use it. Secondly, they have done this before (forced agreeing to the terms to do a software update) and every time they have warned "some functionality might cease to work" and every time I kept using it past the cutoff. Once, I had Spotify stop working on me. I assume because they switched API keys or something. In fact, for example, they had an update that killed Audible integration. And my Audible integration kept working until I installed the update.
  • alphaalpha101 9y ago
    So they've already released 'updates' that break the device and reduces its feature set, and you're okay with this?
    • throwaway2016a 9y ago
      From what I understand that one was more Audible's fault than there's. It sounded like Amazon deprecated the API. I am sure if I kept using it without updating that it would eventually stop working. Anyone who got effected by that should blame Amazon.
      • alphaalpha101 9y ago
        The only people that should be affected by it are Sonos. They should sue Amazon for violating their service agreement to maintain Audible so it would continue to work.