when will play:3s be ‘legacy’?

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Genuine question. What is the likely timeframe?

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AirgetlamAnswer

As I recall, they stopped selling them in 2019, so the minimum amount of time would be 2024. And, of course, it might be longer, many of the soon to be legacy devices are well past 15 years old in design.

Bruce

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Lyricist III

The key here is that it is less about time than it is about available memory and CPU. The time is just a manageable way about talking about this.

Yeah, this is where i call bs on Sonos…..if you cry your hardware limitations as a reason given how technology innovates with requirements...how can you say you support minimum of 5 years if you have NO control of future requirements but yet you do with the 5 year support.

jgatie

Yeah, this is where i call bs on Sonos…..if you cry your hardware limitations as a reason given how technology innovates with requirements...how can you say you support minimum of 5 years if you have NO control of future requirements but yet you do with the 5 year support.

It's not BS, it's legalese. In some jurisdictions, companies are required by law to support products for 5 years after last manufactured. So Sonos is pledging that because they have to. In all honesty, it took 15 years to blow through 32 MB, so code bloat tendencies aside, Sonos has a lot of experience squeezing every last bit of function out of every MB. So I expect a lot longer than 5 years, even for the oldest non-legacy units.

jgatie

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

https://en.community.sonos.com/advanced-setups-229000/updated-memory-graphic-6836345

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