That doesn't seem unreasonable
It does to me. Having my whole system run on out of date software because I have 1 or more aged components seems very limiting. I hope I can still use it to play music from my NAS but can certainly envisage a time when spotify(etc) wont play on it.
Quite right. The apparent casual acceptance on here of Sonos's moronic announcement is bizarre.
Sonos users should be in no doubt that the company has quite possibly just out-Ratnered Ratner. In the space of one day, and with one e-mail, it has turned its legions of happy tech-and-social-media-savvy owners and recommenders into an army of despisers vowing never to buy Sonos again. Many are ditching their equipment or exploring alternatives, as the new money-grubbing strategy that's been revealed destroys the whole Sonos stable one-system home multi-room inter-connected premium audio ethos.
SEE HERE for the enormous backlash underway, and to understand why Sonos has basically shot itself in the head. Elsewhere, sites such as Trustpilot etc show just how bad the reaction has been. Owners are flooding review pages on Amazon etc too, warning prospective purchasers off. National and international news and tech media everywhere are reporting the fiasco - it's been on the front page of BBC News twice. The share price is plummeting.
Quite astounding that Sonos thought it was going to get this dumb strategy past hundreds of thousands of people who have invested very large sums in Sonos equipment but are not prepared to pay those sums all over again just to keep their current set-up doing what it already does but with some minor extra bells and whistles most of them don't want. The environmental lunacy of its trade-up scheme is the icing on this sh1tcake.
An extraordinary masterclass in corporate idiocy that will be subject to many a business management course case study for years to come.
Sonos might just be able to rescue this and get the bullet surgically removed from its brain in time, but the follow-up faux-apology stroke reiteration of dumb strategy from the CEO (who I understand coincidentally had a major hand in the demise of BlackBerry too) ain't gonna do it.