Should all third party contributions (even commercial ones) be allowed here?
Right now moderators enforce, that
Promotion of commercial products is not permitted here.
Forum policy is not to allow the explicit exploitation of these forums for any commercial purposes outside of Sonos. This includes sales and support activity. To permit such operations could lead to conflicts of interest and a potential free-for-all.
(http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?p=176642)
Personally I think this is a policy which actually hinders Sonos to grow for specific target groups.
Any third party contribution (regardless of being paid or not) will fill some perceived gaps/limitation of the current Sonos offering thus increasing the overall market appeal of the system.
This forum is probably the only place where users looking for answers travel by to make an informed decision whether to invest into the Sonos ecosystem or not.
For instance it took me a long time until I realized that there were Windows Phone Apps (and it's a pain to find their names and there's also no rea