"Sonos stops updates for older products" - explained!

UPDATE - Hi guys, thank you for watching. I wanted to clarify some points as it appears from reading some of the comments, there are still misconceptions about Sonos’ legacy products.

Your speakers including your legacy products will continue to work exactly as they do now for many more years to come. No speakers are being bricked and no speakers are being made obsolete.
Any legacy products will still receive bug and security updates so there are no threats to data protection or security.

Following on from the CEO’s statement on the 23rd January, and since hearing some of the feedback from the community, Sonos have reassured us on a couple of points:

Sonos are now working on a fix to allow your modern products to still receive software updates if there are other legacy products on your system. How this will be implemented will be shared over the next few weeks.
If any unforeseen developments occur in the future that critically affects the listening experience, Sonos will work on an alternative solution and let you know how your experience might be affected.

Now that Sonos have ironed out the major concern that I and many other people had regarding the inability to run a legacy and modern product on the same system, it seems there may be a solution to put our minds at rest.

I think as consumers, it’s important to recognise that the technology industry is changing so rapidly, it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to design a product with a lifespan of more than a decade.

Let’s take the example of TVs. 8K is already the next big thing shortly after 4K and most 4K TVs will not be able to support 8K so this is something we need to weigh up when purchasing smart tech products.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out the letter from Patrick, here’s the link: https://blog.sonos.com/en/a-letter-from-our-ceo/

Website -
https://www.smarthomesounds.co.uk/

Trade up information -
https://www.smarthomesounds.co.uk/blog/sonos-offers/sonos-trade-in-get-30-off-a-sonos-amp