When will the Sonos controller for MacOS be updated to run natively on Apple Silicon?
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Apple Silicon has been available in production for been over two years, it is simply a lack of focus now.
64-bit Windows has been available for over a decade, but there is still no 64-bit Sonos app for it, despite almost no-one running 32-bit Windows these days. Windows on ARM has existed for longer than “Apple Silicon”, still no version for that either.
Why is there no version for 64-bit or ARM Windows? Well #1 because the desktop controllers are in life-support maintenance mode only, and #2 because the emulation layers on all these platforms work well enough. Apple is no different in this regard.
You are right and this makes sense overall. Companies face these development decisions all the time.
Catch 22? No desktop app for Apple Silicon or W64, and the stats say no one uses desktop app. Funny that.
They stopped ‘development’ of both desktop apps several years ago, and stripped out all ‘set up’ functions. The desktop controllers are now just receiving bug updates, but Sonos has said that the mobile apps are what should be used moving forward. I use my desktop app for music playback, but any time I need to do anything substantial to my system, I use the mobile controller.
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Catch 22? No desktop app for Apple Silicon or W64, and the stats say no one uses desktop app. Funny that.
I can’t speak for Apple users, but I’ll wager most Windows users cannot tell the difference between a 32-bit or a 64-bit app. The WOW (Windows-on-Windows) subsystem has long made the difference invisible.
Yah, no more sonos $$$ for me. The lack of M1 desktop support, general DT apathy, and speaker priorities don’t really align well with a lot of what I value. Maybe fewer lawyers and a couple of engineers who can recompile code for M1?
Catch 22? No desktop app for Apple Silicon or W64, and the stats say no one uses desktop app. Funny that.
I can’t speak for Apple users, but I’ll wager most Windows users cannot tell the difference between a 32-bit or a 64-bit app. The WOW (Windows-on-Windows) subsystem has long made the difference invisible.
Right. Let the DT software just rot in place. Ask pandora how that’s working out for them. Mobile controllers are nice, unless i’m sitting at my desk in front of my computer.
I really haven’t noticed any rotting of my Mac controller on either my M1 or older Intel Macs. Both perform flawlessly, as they should. Slightly annoyed by the lack of setup functions, but I have my iOS devices, it’s just not that onerous on the extremely rare occasions that I need to deal with a setup function.
You might be over reacting here. I get your point without the dramatics.
Apple makes it stupid easy to port these things over though, all it usually takes is a recompile. I hate that desktop software is now just a second class citizen.
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