![]() The old system required a certain amount of space between channels - “blank” channels if you like. The old TV’s could not operate in the current environment. In addition to higher resolution screens, the new TV’s allow stations to be packed closer together. You might have noticed that you have had to replace all of your TV’s. Otherwise, the phone was in near perfect condition. The final straw was the notice from my cell service provider that it will soon stop connecting this phone to the cell network. In addition to SONOS, Apps that I needed for my day job were being locked out. ![]() My phone was much older than yours and was stuck at Android 4.x. ![]() I too had to purchase a new phone last year. A small company will develop a small innovation that is then sold to a large company that has the resources to build the innovation on a large scale. I’m not sure that we would yet have pocket sized devices.Įarly phone and personal computer innovation was driven scrappy small companies. Then another 20 years before a handheld device might have become available. Imagine being required to carry such a device for 20 years before you could replace it with a “small” device you could best be described as a briefcase. Early “portable” phones were suitcase sized devices. Imagine the utility of a 20 year “innovation” cycle. The phone company’s business plan designed a 20 year lifespan into each piece of equipment. At least in the US the customer did not own the phones and only equipment owned and approved by the phone company was allowed to be connected to the wires (by law). It was similar with old telco landline phones. With respect to audio equipment the mindset has been “buy once, use forever”. Nope - Sonos’ removed the management features from the windows app, and I don’t know why. Windows XP still works, its unsupported but you can still use it! (and install old software). In the early days I did not need to login into Sonos to add speakers!īut we are where we are, and I’ve just bought a new phone so that I can use sonos again. I’m not even sure it was in the small print. ![]() ![]() You wouldn’t buy a audio amplifier that would stop working if you didn’t fit a new plug every 5 years, bad analogy I know but this product clearly has a limited life and for those of us who don’t buy the latest smart gadget every two years can’t use this anymore.īasically this was not made clear at the time I purchased the product. This was always intended as a home music system, running my own music, why would the app and speakers *need* to be updated (through no choice I add!!). I totally disagree, when I purchased this system 12 odd years ago, there was no indication that the system would stop functioning as OS went out of date. I’m expecting to have perform a full factory reset to get everything back to factory conditions but I’m hesitant due to my phone app saying the OS is unsupported!! Given the amount of money I have spent on Sono’s to play music from MY NAS on MY speakers I’m very disappointed when things like this happen. To cap it all the windows 10 app no longer allows the user to add speakers to the network either. What the heck! My android OS is up to date, and the Sono’s app is now telling my I can’t add MY play 5 back onto MY network!!!! Then I went back to my updated app to add the Play 5 and was told ‘OS on this device is no longer supported!! version of app isn’t compatible with the Sonos system!!’ I then went to add the Play 5 to my network and was told the phone app needed updating, which I did. So I went to add it back on, the phone app told me I needed a system update, so all my Sono’s barring the Play 5 got updated. I have had a Sonos system for around 12 years, I have the 2 x AMPS and a Sono’s PLAY 5.Īll been working okay but at the weekend my Play 5 had disappeared off my network. ![]()
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