junking legacy equipment.

You don’t have to ‘bin’ it, it will continue to work as before, it just won’t receive further software updates. 

The equipment will work "as before" til sonos decide it wont. Whrn your music streaming service "upgrades", our fancy sonos gear will stop working.

The raspberry pi hack could fix this issue for ALL "legacy" gear, sonos could put their badge on it and rip us off but our speakers would continue to function though future software updates would have to go via the raspberry pi.

If only sonos cared about their customers AND our planet. Earth is not landfill for tech companies.

John 

What did you do with your ‘386 computer, when it wouldn’t run XP? 

For my legacy equipment, when I decide it’s time do do something with them, I will be recycling them with a responsible electronics recycling company, who can break it into useable components that can be reused.  

Thanx Bruce for your reply.

I bought my "legacy" sonos gear LAST YEAR, i dont see the comparison with "legacy" computers. A speaker is a box which plays sound thru speaker cones. Sonos SHOULD think "outside the box (cabinet)' and sell we sonos users a tiny box which can route the software updates to the year-old equipment. The raspberry pi computer could have thr same chip sonos use for their wifi/network connection and a MUCH larger memory to cope with decades of updates. This idea could become a "hack" and then a gadget which could join our sonis systems and save the speakers to make mudic for years&years.

sonos could put their badge on this gadget & make we legacy listeners happy. Ive already chosen a spot next to my router for my SONOS UPDATE BOX. S.U.B.

Johnny 

Only if you bought it used.

Or your seller sold you something they had sitting on the shelf for years. That happens, Best Buy did it to me.

I bought mine 4.5 years ago and for the price I  expect a hell of a lot more use than that. Sonos can get stuffed as far as I am concerned. They won’t see another cent from me. I suggest those affected also go to their competition. Let’s send the bastards broke.

I can appreciate this analogy, as well as the want to defend what’s happening, but it does not hold up… The vast majority of home computers at that time were stand-alone devices that at-best connected to dial-up services for web connectivity; and certainly there was no home network in place to which multiple machines were connected. And, more certainly, even if there were a home network environment, the update availability and available software choices for all machines connected to it was not determined by the lowest common denominator OS on the network. Even in a business environment DOS machines existed with Windows 2000/XP and beyond with everything in between. The resulting mix was that legacy machines could not benefit from the many features the modern ones could, and some interoperability wasn’t possible (or was but with great measures taken to provide it). Certainly the modern machines were not restricted to the feature sets of the oldest in environment.
Just doesn’t hold up.

The argument that a Sonos device is like a PC OS is wrong on many levels.

1. Sonos is not a software version. Its marketed as a speaker or receiver like my 15 yr old Yamaha or Denon. 
    
2. Old PCs and Iphones still perform their core features. 
    
3. EOL dates are published when you buy your NEW chromebook or PC