when will play:3s be ‘legacy’?

 
you don’t lose it. But they won’t update it. The whole system goes in to legacy mode. That’s the problem with this. And that’s what I was told by customer support after the spence email. 

Please read opening post of this

https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/end-of-software-support-clarifications-6835969

So why did you say you did?

Thanks John. I had read that. But you will see, as I did, that the following is ambiguous:

‘ and legacy products can still be used separately’ 

The idea of using Sonos products ‘separately’ is not the usual Sonos way. So I asked Sonos support, and I received the answer above. And that makes it clear:

‘After May, if you will keep legacy and modern device anther the same house hold, modern device will not be update so the device can work together as a one system.’

That I emphasise, John, was after the 2nd announcement and the Spence email. And if you read the announcement carefully it is not inconsistent with it. 
 

I agree 18 months iPhone model is an exaggeration. But I never anticipated any sort of ‘system effect’ on keeping ‘old’ Sonos products. So I am re evaluating.

Sorry, John, because I sense this is annoying you. But I think you have misunderstood the Sonos plan. It’s not just that your old units don’t get updates. It’s that the whole system gets no updates. So the whole system goes into an non-updated legacy mode. That’s the problem. And that’s why we will have to keep buying new hardware to keep the system up to date. So I’m looking at what will be the next ‘legacy’ and it’s the Play:3.

If you stream Deezer/ Spotify etc and have a Legacy system you're on borrowed time hoping they don't alter alter their protocols (no update from Sonos for that..).

I doubt many will opt for the split system.

The Play:1 is well down the pecking order memory wise so probably next on the chopping block..

Thanks, Keith. 
More food for thought as I have more of the 1st gen Play:1s than Play:3s. 
Sonos has really done us over. 

I believe it’s five years from when they stop manufacturing them.  Someone in the announcement thread said they bought a connect or play 5 brand new a year ago, and it’s now going legacy.  From a sonos dealer.

I assume it really has less to do with either when it was manufactured and/or sold, and much more to do with the amount of memory in it, and the size of the memory Sonos needs to use to run the ‘latest’ features.
 

Which is why all the original devices, now marked as ‘legacy’, have been functional since Sonos was released in 2005. All of these devices marked as ‘legacy’ have a measly 32Meg of memory, but have been kept current until this upcoming May.

My assumption is that Sonos is going to continue to do everything possible, as they have previously, in order to keep from doing another round like this. However, there are limits, much like in smart phones, as to how much you can cram in to this restricted memory.

This all wouldn’t be happening if these were simple speakers that didn’t have computers in them. But then they wouldn’t be what we purchased, either. 

Is there a list handy somewhere of which devices have what amounts of memory?