Luckily all B&O speakers have bluetooht and line-in, local control and remotes available. 😐

The issue with the Sonos story is this - the older speakers that wont be updated anymore wil have to be used as standalone speakers.

So if you have a mix of supported / unsupported speakers, you have to split off the unsupported one(s) - then yes, they can work on a standalone basis.

But they cant be used in conjunction with newer ones, or as part of a mixed setup.

So its not quite the same as a 3 year old TV gaining no future software updates - the TV is generally standalone, and will continue that way, and an owner will largely be able to carry on as before.

The Sonos story means that for some their setups (whether all old, or a mix of old / new) is broken / needs breaking up.

Jaffrey2230 wrote:

I am assuming the hardware will keep working but won’t support the newer software features. No different than buying a 4K TV that won’t support Dolby Vision or some other standard because it is missing the hardware etc. This is par for the course I am afraid. The hardware still be able to do what it did when you bought it...

„May be this will bring good news for B&O“

I hope the Sonos customers are not so stupid to change to Bang & Olufsen!

Since Bang&Olufsen offers Multiroom systems (not based on Masterlink) there is not one product that Bang&Olufsen offered 11 years of software updates after introducing the product or 5 years of software updates after discontinuing the product. And looking at these 11 or 5 years of Sonos software update support, that is the worst situation. Most Sonos products have a much better software update lifetime.

HH1971 wrote:

I hope the Sonos customers are not so stupid to change to Bang & Olufsen!

I prefer NL way over ML way over MCL!

I’d be interested in the Core.....if the price is right ;-)))

MM

Carolpa wrote:

to me for a small price.

That's exactly the problem. You get a technically immature product for an exorbitant high price. For a lower purchase price I would also overlook the incredible amount of technical shortcomings of Bang&Olusfen products. So I totally can understand your desire to get it cheap, unfortunately I paid the list price :(

This is the latest from Sonos

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51768574