Sonos S1 app offering S2

The nag message to update has gotten bigger and can’t be dismissed on iOS. Not cool. S2 offers me nothing new, just headaches to get everyone in the household updated. 

I guess “annoy your customers until they update” is the new philosophy. Time to check out 3rd party apps...

Great post. And even more than the S1 and S2 forced upgrade cycle, is the number one reason for me to leave Sonos where i have been since the earliest days. Nearly everytime i open the app, i want to throw the device across the room so disgusted i am with the unceasing intrusiveness of what was once simple  and easy.  It is so offensive to be reminded, to have space at the top of the app taken over until i comply and to force me to do what i do not want to do with products i own. As a result i have begun the process of disentagment-replacing Sonos speakers with 3rd party app based receivers and passive speakers, whole house app based amps and other wireless technology. For example i ripped out 4 AMP devices and replaced them with a whole house amplifier. Never again will i be the victim of a monoply vendor in my homes.

When this cycle is completed, the only Sonos products that will remain on my networks are Connect and Port while new solutions roll into the market at which point i will be Sonos free.

I simply fail to understand why Sonos continually works so hard to turn off its most loyal consumers. Do they not  engage with customers or is it they simply dont care? Soon however this wont be my concern. Sad when a company with great technology and loyal constomers loses its way.

Well the only “update” I’m ever going to make one day is to change to another system altogether.

Not comppletely true since updating to S2 will render more than those you listed unusuable. They could at least examine the current system and only nag people who can actually update to S2 without ruining compability.

Sonos is so lame.

I think you’re misinterpreting controlav’s response. Beyond the devices he listed, all Sonos devices are supported by either S1 or S2, and for the foreseeable future, will continue to be. 
 

He made no distinction between S1 and S2. To my knowledge, the only devices that require S1 are the first generation of PLAY:5, the first generation of the CONNECT and CONNECT:AMP, and the BRIDGE. But they all continue to work under S1 exactly as they have. 
 

@Annazel S is there anything new on removing this upgrade notification from S1?

If you have full S2 compliant system it will not go away.

I've bought some S1 kit to get rid of it.

Should only have to refuse the update once regardless of what products you have imho.

Everyone is aware of S2, should be customers choice without the incessant nagging from Sonos.

 If you have a household that only has players that are S2 capable, then the banner will persist until you choose to upgrade. 

That is just a terrible attitude towards one’s customers, IMO.

I have 10 sonos units.  Only 1 is S2 compatible.  But, in my S1 App I get constant messages to upgrade to S2.  Can’t make them go away.  Really?  This is ridiculous.