When Sonos Voice Control launches, it is said to support Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Deezer, Sonos Radio and Sonos Radio HD with one notable exception from the list, Spotify and Google’s YouTube Music. This move will continue the company’s push into services after having launched Sonos Radio and the higher quality paid version Sonos Radio HD. Additionally, Sonos’ commitment to privacy means the company will not record user audio commands which will reportedly start with the “Hey Sonos” wake phrase, or relay audio commands to the cloud for remote processing. In order for these technologies to really gain popularity, users need to be able to trust them, this is perhaps why Apple finds success in implementing such technologies. That would be a more environmental-friendly process than bricking old devices with their questionable recycle mode.Sonos’ voice assistant has been in the works for some time now, recently a job opening was spotted related to Sonos Voice Experience and was described as having the goal to “make voice interactions fully private, more personal, and more natural.” Sonos’ stated goal to make voice interactions fully private is in stark contrast with the other two voice assistants supported on the company’s devices. As systems on a chip, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth get faster and more efficient, users should be able to swap out the computing card for a new one without replacing the speaker altogether. Sonos should add a computing card slot to its devices. Sure, they’d have to add a CD player in their system at some point. People in the 1980s would buy beautiful speakers and keep them for decades. But it’s time to think about ways to keep your speakers for 10, 20 or even 30 years. Planned obsolescence due to end-of-life is a great business model for sure. Sonos should use this opportunity to rethink its product lineup. It’s also ironic as the company promises a seamless music experience but then requires you to swap out speakers altogether. The company says that you can get a discount if you replace your old device. For instance, if you just bought a Sonos One but you’re still using an old Sonos Play:5, your Sonos One isn’t going to receive updates either. If Spotify and Apple Music update their application programming interface in the future, your devices could stop working with those services altogether.īut Sonos has decided that your entire ecosystem of Sonos devices is going to stop receiving updates so that all your devices are on the same firmware version. The company is going to stop shipping updates to those devices. If you use a Zone Player, Connect, first-generation Play:5, CR200, Bridge or pre-2015 Connect:Amp, Sonos is basically going to make your Sonos experience worse across the board. “However, we’ve now come to a point where some of the oldest products have been stretched to their technical limits in terms of memory and processing power,” the company writes. It means that some people are still happily using old Sonos devices even though production has stopped since then. Sonos points out that 92% of the products that it has ever sold are still in use today. While nothing lasts forever, dropping support is going to have a lot of implications and shows once again that the connected home isn’t as future-proof as expected. Sonos stopped selling these devices a few years ago. Smart speaker manufacturer Sonos has announced that the company is going to drop support for some of its products.
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