CR100 no longer works after update

Nice chicks - where is the wireless remote?

Oh no, on the contrary.
When/if I ever find the app or any other device (you never know..) as convenient (for my use case) as my now dead CR200, I'd love to switch back to Sonos.
(Reason being I could hook up a record player to the Connect much easier than to my Logitech gear)

oh my I hated Squeezebox.

They never, ever really leave chris. You know that.

I know I know. I guess Ebay was closed.

Oh no, on the contrary.
When/if I ever find the app or any other device (you never know..) as convenient (for my use case) as my now dead CR200, I'd love to switch back to Sonos.
(Reason being I could hook up a record player to the Connect much easier than to my Logitech gear)Sorry to hear that your CR200 died. If only the CR100s had done the same, nobody would be complaining.

I think he had two CR200's that died over time -- this goes back a while. Just like the CR100 their probably aren't a ton out there in the wild still.

Two CR200, right, and I don't complain.
They just died after several years. Too early, if you ask me, but obviously that's how things are these days.
If Sonos had declared them worthless just like that, that'd be a different matter.

Please name another piece of consumer hardware that is over ten years old and still actively supported by its manufacturer.

This is not about supporting the hardware but remotely disabling due to Sonos not valuing their customers enough to invest in forking the firmware. Once done, they can safely say there's no support so your point is not relevant.

Sonos could easily have taken this approach but they didn't as they don't care:

1. Fork firmware to set a "legacy point" e.g. at 8.4.
2. Introduce a capability in controllers to say block firmware updates (not just do not check for updates).
3. Make the app compatible with both legacy and new (trivial from a coding perspective, no need for different apps).
4. Allow new players that are still hardware compatible with legacy to be downgraded to that version.
5. Make sure users know they are on an unsupported path and if they have any problems, they will be required to upgrade to a supported version.

But no, they didn't do that as they don't care about their customers.