Sonos Value Discussion

[marktheknife]

@greg.cole

Most of us in this home automation hobby or fascination are early adopters and routinely want the latest and greatest tech.

OTOH, there are also many people who find Sonos’ planned obsolescence irritating.

SONOS stops support for "older" models starting in May. Another warning shot

Just received my alert email from Sonos indicating that 3 of my Play:5's (purchased from Sonos in 2017) are on the old and naughty list and will no longer be supported. The interesting bit is while the system will continue to work (but may "degrade") no devices on the system will be updated even if they are newer. Apparently these premium speakers are not premium enough to handle what they've been doing all along so need to be scrapped/replaced by more modern ones - 3 years is a long time afte…