I have a Sony Dash, even though I don't really use much of it, I find it irreplaceable for the ability to program complex alarms. It's been working fine for at

I have a Sony Dash, even though I don't really use much of it, I find it irreplaceable for the ability to program complex alarms. It's been working fine for at least 4 years. A couple of days ago we had a power failure, the thing hadn't been rebooted in looong time. Since the reboot it hasn't been able to get passed an 'Authorizing...' screen. Long story short, Sony discontinued some servers, the thing is a brick now. I knew there were some cloud services been consumed but had no idea it wouldn't work at all without those services. It's a freaking alarm clock!!!! Even if Sony would make this same move, and I would happily take the replacement, I would never buy another thing like this. Dodge this bullet, what about the next one?