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I'm no Google friend, but what is really unacceptable here is the way Sonos cripples their products with unnecessary "features" that have the sole purpose of ty
by squarefoot 4y ago
I'm no Google friend, but what is really unacceptable here is the way Sonos cripples their products with unnecessary "features" that have the sole purpose of tying users to their closed proprietary hardware and software.
To give an idea, here's a speaker which became unusable to the point it required the entire amplifier board to be replaced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeIk-4ItQ70 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeIk-4ItQ70
- nocoiner 4y agoBut nobody’s buying Sonos gear to get a dumb speaker. If they’re dropping Sonos money on those products, they’re buying into an ecosystem with capabilities that are a function of tightly coupled software and hardware. A whole lot like Apple, now that I think about it. If that’s not an interesting value proposition to a hypothetical consumer, then it makes no sense for him or her to buy Sonos. But to say that something that doesn’t affect people who haven’t bought into the ecosystem means that Sonos is the real bad guy here seems like a whataboutist argument.