A quick read might seem like "They aren't supporting older hardware anymore, so just trade up and everything will be fine" which I a of people will probably do. But there's this "or else" part buried in the note.
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@sonos is a system" if you keep using the old hardware - which works perfectly fine I might add - all your newer hardware is going to stop working too. So upgrade your old hardware or we hold your new hardware hostage.Prikaži ovu nit -
Again, a lot of people will read that and think "Well, that speaker is old so I guess I'll just upgrade." As an aside, I have a pair of speakers from the 70's that work and sound amazing. Anyway, back to
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And that's where things get really bad, because as I noted this hardware is in perfect working order right now. But lets say I'm worried that my thousands of dollars worth of
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It's bad.
@sonos says they take their "responsibility to the environment seriously" so again, if I'm just reading what they tell me I would assume they are recycling things responsibly. But that's not the case. As we learned last month:https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1210662988828442624 …
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That's an important thread to read, but the TL;DR is that if you chose to upgrade your
@sonos hardware they ask you to put it into "Recycle Mode" which permanently bricks the devices. Absolutely perfectly functioning hardware gets killed by software and there's no going back.Prikaži ovu nit -
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@verge Sonos said they do that because they are concerned about customer experience. That they don't want someone unfamiliar with the company to get an old device and have a poor experience with it and think badly about the company.https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/30/21042871/sonos-recycle-mode-trade-up-program-controversy …Prikaži ovu nit -
That's bullshit. They are protecting their high price of entry and worried about a 2nd hand market for used hardware chipping into that. But maybe their argument about old devices not having the processing power is legitimate? No.
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The hardware in question for me, is a Play 5 speaker. It looks like this:pic.twitter.com/V4OJMMdFHc
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It has an audio in. That means I can plug an iPod or laptop or anything else directly into it, skipping the whole Sonos system and just play music through it. Like a Speaker. Because it is a speaker. But if I put it into "Recycle mode" that ability ends.
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So they threatening me to upgrade or my whole system will stop working, and if I upgrade they are purposefully destroying the absolutely functional speaker that I currently have. Which is an environmental nightmare. Creates more waste, and more bullshit.
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So rather than letting me keep using something that works fine, rather than letting someone who might not be able to afford a brand new Sonos speaker get it 2nd hand and use it, rather than the parts being able to be used for something else, this goes in the landfil.
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landfill. Goddamn it twitter where is my edit button!
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Anyway, the point of this is that this is bullshit and it's just one more company making future bricks instead of long lasting products and putting their own profits ahead of sustainability and the environment. I'll never buy another
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