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> If you build something that has to guarantee a 10 or 20 year supply Consumer products routinely drop support after 3/5 years, Android phones being exhibit A,
by ClumsyPilot 3y ago
> If you build something that has to guarantee a 10 or 20 year supply
Consumer products routinely drop support after 3/5 years, Android phones being exhibit A, Sonos speakers are exhibit B, and Google in general being in the corner of shame.
While I applaud any efforts at product longevity, I am not getting the impression that it's a first-priority concern at present.
- happyopossum 3y agoSonos dropped support for speakers that were 10+ years old (and even then, still kept around the old app to mostly support them). Not sure what you’re on about with a 3 year lifespan…
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoThat's neither here nor there. I have speakers that are 16 years old, Creative Gigaworks T3. In their 6th year, the circuit board in their sound remote died, rendering them useless. There are no complex chips there, nothing proprietary, but Creative no longer manufactured it, 5 years old, and so repair was impossible. I was able to fix them by finding someone who sells a replacement remote on TaoBao and getting a shipping company to send it to me at 2x the price. Point is - availability of parts does not guarantee manufacturer has any interest is supporting the product. On the contrary, if manufacturer wants to fix something, they actually can, even if exact same parts aren't available.