Four years ago, there was a [Wayback/Archive] Sonos U-turn over ‘bricking’ its smart speakers (BBC) after which hell broke loose in their community.
It was the main reason that I put my wish for Sonos speakers to sleep (and concentrate on surviving cancer).
Since a few weeks Sonos has released new apps that perform way worse and causes great turmoil in their community again, see for instance [Wayback/Archive] reddit/r/sonos: Anyone else worried about Sonos’s future? : sonos and [Wayback/Archive] The disaster known as The New Sonos App – vowe dot net.
I expect this this time Sonos won’t make a U-Turn: [Wayback/Archive] What happened to the Sonos app? A technical analysis is clear about what happened (“data-grab for AI purposes”) and the up-side for Sonos shareholders.
It however is making people that appreciate the former Sonos aim for quality to look for alternatives, which leads me to a post (plus thread) that pointed me to the above technical analysis: [Wayback/Archive] Kris: “Currently 11 Sonos devices. Time for an exit strategy. …” – chaos.social.
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