When I bought Sonos speakers for much of my house in 2012-2014 it was selling itself as an alternative to hifi equipment that lasts decades. In retrospect my ex

When I bought Sonos speakers for much of my house in 2012-2014 it was selling itself as an alternative to hifi equipment that lasts decades. In retrospect my expectation that Sonos would be longer lived than that was short sighted, I should have known better. This is planned obsolescence at its finest and I guess I won’t be buying Sonos/other smart speakers again. There’s no reason to replace perfectly good speakers every 5-10 years because the microcontroller inside isn’t profitable enough to continue to support. Good sounding/looking powered speakers with a small compartment inside for a modular brain would be a pretty good trade off, basically like driving the same TV panel with a different set top box every few years.