Sonos considers relaunching its old app

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10 points·thunderbong··4 comments

What a hot mess from a number of perspectives;

- big bang release for the S2 app, lazy approach, do it incrementally instead!

- sonos threatened, a couple of years ago, to no longer support older speakers, what a joke

- why is there a different S1 and S2 app? is there a terse explanation of this somewhere? i really don't get this, it feels like either laziness again, or an indirect way to push people toward refreshing their hardware

The S1 and S2 split was primarily due to deciding against bricking older devices with limited system memory (32/64 MB of storage as well as memory which could only hold so much code). So, S1 is effectively a deprecated system to allow you to continue using those older players but no longer receive system updates (and music services, from what I recall, are in a "YMMV" status).

what? I mean I understand what you're saying, but literally what?

the whole point of technology is to surprise and delight customers and abstract these details away! I don't care about megablaaadywhowhos of storage or gigapoops of transfer. why are you threatening to brick my expensive hardware, and why then are you bifurcating the apps?

it's laziness and laziness at best

abstract the details away and give me the same delightful experience regardless of my hardware

They lost my business, they're not getting it back.

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