This is incredibly short sighted. Devices slowly becoming obsolete is understandable, but having those devices blocking updates to your other, newer devices is a huge slap in the face to those that invested early and/or heavily in their systems.
I only have one Sonos speaker and I like it. It isn’t on “the list” but this will keep me from buying any more. It leaves a really bad taste.
Apparently their stock price took a beating as a result. If this is a backhanded way of forcing people into hardware upgrades (what else could it be?) then it is probably going to backfire spectacularly. I wouldn’t be surprised if they backtrack on this.
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