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From the original blog post: "We've now come to a point where some of the oldest products have been stretched to their technical limits in terms of memory and
by RyanShook 7y ago
From the original blog post:
"We've now come to a point where some of the oldest products have been stretched to their technical limits in terms of memory and processing power,"
Since when does playing back music files stretch the limits of what these speakers were designed to do? I have invested pretty heavily in Sonos but now realize I would have been better off connecting an Airplay adapter to a traditional sound system...
- lysium 7y agoSo true! It would be reasonable if they said that only the newer devices get the newest features. Instead, they chose to upgrade all devices until they are maxed out and then turn around to their pioneering customers telling them they need to buy new hardware just so that they can keep development costs low.
- rsync 7y ago"Since when does playing back music files stretch the limits of what these speakers were designed to do?" Playing back music files is a use-case that is antagonistic to their current business model and something they would disable immediately if they could. Playing back music files has no social component, does not require a mobile phone app, and can be done without generating metrics and personally identifiable information. Playing back music files is the last thing Sonos wants you to do.
- t-writescode 7y agoThey’re literally in the speaker business, how do you get this argument? I also have to be on my wifi to talk to my speakers. They don’t need to keep servers running on the internet for me to talk to my speakers. They have one job. If they’re requiring internet connectivity for everything control or local-stream powered, they’re absolutely doing it wrong.
- unethical_ban 7y agoThey're in the making-money business and their brand is associated with sound. They will manipulate their product lines and revenue streams to maximize the value of their brand, to maximize profit.
- londons_explore 7y agoProbably because at the start they wrote all their code in C on a microcontroller with a few kilobytes of RAM, and now they want to run Linux with NodeJS requiring a few gigabytes of RAM to achieve the same thing...
- sergiotapia 7y agoI'll never in my life purchase a Sonos product because of this line - absolutely shameless!
- dehrmann 7y agoPeople want streaming services and digital assistants on their Sonos. Support that either takes beefier hardware, more specialized hardware, or offloading the work somewhere. But in all the cases, more advanced features do take hardware designed for it.
- pikzel 7y agoThe streaming services they use, e.g. Spotify are more resource intensive today than they were when Sonos first came out. They are not just playing a PCM/Wav file, you know.