It's a good move, but honestly they're moving in a direction that is less interesting to me. Ten years ago, Sonos was the sine qua non of easy home audio, becu

It's a good move, but honestly they're moving in a direction that is less interesting to me. Ten years ago, Sonos was the sine qua non of easy home audio, becuase they were ahead of the game on interface AND gave you a great way to access your music library anywhere in your house. The extra bonus feature was their usage of a proprietary mesh network, so the music didn't stream over your increasingly-overburdened regular wifi network. Well, most of those advantages have kinda gone away. Moving in reverse: - wifi is way better now; I never have dropouts anymore. - The Sonos interface is now way, way, way behind the Apple music interface IMO. My nontechnical wife never warmed to Sonos at all, but she can use iTunes on her phone with aplomb, and playing music in the living room uses the same interface as playing music on her headphones. - Library access was a sticking point, given that Apple formerly relied on a convoluted approach here, but by subscribing to Apple Music the problem is completely sidestepped. I pay for this mostly so I don't ever have to plug my phone into the media box and sync files -- for me or for my wife. That's worth the price right there, to be honest, but in addition to that you get access to nearly anything. It's rare I can't find what I want there. (We DO still buy CDs locally, but only because we live in a place with a real indie record store.) The tl;dr is that we were already kind of Done with Sonos when this whole kerfluffle started -- we have sunk costs here, but as these devices stop functioning we'll move to something else that plugs into the Apple infrastructure better. Even if we have to revert to local music only due to some Apple failure, there are still better/easier options than Sonos at this point.