Sonic67
Ex Member
Buy a CD player and a bunch of CDs and you can still use it until it all physically falls apart. Buy Sonos and use Spotify and you will have to upgrade at some point. It's a hidden cost.
I wouldn't mind if I could use my iPad to control my Sonos speakers via the earlier app and forego recent enhancements. When I try to use the iPad, Sonos tells me to upgrade my OS. But my iPad tells me it can't upgrade its OS because the hardware is too old, so it's as good as dead. Sonos could quite easily have maintained compatibility with old iPads in the new app, but they chose not to. So I've got to buy a new iPad (or other tablet), just to achieve the trivial task of controlling my Sonos stuff. Annoying, and expensive. In the meantime I've taken to using an obsolete Android phone to do this.I have already posted on the ipad story. I suspect you cannot blame Sonos that their App will not download. That is purely Apple. I haave a early ipad2 and an iTouch 4 ..I think. Any software on them is ok, but updates cannot be downloaded. Why?. Because they check the iOS revision, and if it is too old, they abort and ask you to update the iOS. But the Apple website will not update these older machines
However if your TV has a HDMI input you can spend £30 on a fire stick and update your apps, Sonos aren’t giving you that “upgrade” pathCouple of points I’ve found:
Sonos have come out and stated what’s going to happen, unlike a lot of tech like tv’s and Tv streaming Devices. They just drop apps and remove services and say ‘sorry it’s a couple of years old and tough’
the real bit that irks me is that it stops newer Sonos stuff from updating.
If part of the original design it may not increase costs. It is easy to make an accessible part containing the affected parts (Wi-Fi, CPU, RAM, CODECS, etc.) and leave behind the parts that are not affected (amplifier, PSU, speakers, etc). Of course the upgraded electronics module would be chargeable but would save landfill.To make them upgradeable would increase the cost since it would mean making the electronics upgradeable by customers without causing damage.
It's only Connect's up to 2015 as well, newer ones than that are fine
It varies with the type of product, we use the current firmware for production after I have tested it and it is formally approved.Or, as production firmware is often quite old (the manufacturer assuming users will get an OTA upgrade promptly