Meta ends original Quest headset support – Gaming – News

Does it impact Sonos?

For Sonos as a company? Yes, save money by no longer supporting old hardware and can earn more from new hardware sales.

I have several Sonos devices myself, but I’m experimenting still no problem (not 1st generation).

Fixed.

For example, Sonos still has their old app which I suspect supports the old hardware and then the new app. So I wonder what the impact is, more so because despite using and updating Sonos for years, the updates really mean nothing to me. It still looks the same to me and still works just as well.

Sonos is more than just a speaker and mobile app. The device has its own software. Let’s say they no longer get updates, so that new TLS versions/ciphers are no longer supported, for example. One consequence in the future is that more and more streams will no longer work.

Incidentally, Sonos has the advantage that thanks to a local open API can use the device completely on its own, possibly offline. This allows you to compensate for the device’s shortcomings with an intermediate computer (like a Raspberry Pi Zero or something more powerful). So it will be a party for the tweaker, buying old secondhand speakers and throwing them on a separate network, with a home-built controller to control everything.

You are right about this:

For VR hardware I suspect the impact will be greater.

There are varying degrees of hardware impact where software support/service fails. This is also not transparent to a consumer.

[Reactie gewijzigd door The Zep Man op 10 januari 2023 08:57]