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No. I don’t expect my Sonos system from 2006 to ever do any more than it does now. It works fine. There’s no “technological limit” involved. It’s just stereo au
by wrs 7y ago
No. I don’t expect my Sonos system from 2006 to ever do any more than it does now. It works fine. There’s no “technological limit” involved. It’s just stereo audio, not 4K 3D VR — how much power do you need?
(edit) So the (new) Sonos position of basically “OK, we’ll keep the hackers out, just don’t expect us to support the new streaming service released in 2022” seems fine for both sides.
- pwthornton 7y agoDo you expect security updates and updates to keep 3rd party services working to happen in perpetuity?
- wrs 7y agoWell, certainly more than five years (see below) — that’s nuts for a device that costs several hundred dollars. And I would distinguish between security updates, keeping existing functions working, and adding new functions (in increasing order of length of “support”).
- pwthornton 7y agoMy opinion is that they should provide 10 years of security and other similar updates for free. They largely have been doing this, but their decision to keep the original Play 5 on sale for so long means that some people may have bought it within the last five years, despite being a really old device.