Since Sonos discontinued the iPhone dock last year when the new lightning connector became standard, and has no plans to make a newer version, for those of you with a dock and perhaps a lightning connector adapter, how long can you expect Sonos to continue supporting that?
For example, at some point, Sonos might say "Meh, it's been 3 years since we discontinued it, we don't think a lot of people are still using one with an adapter, and in the latest version of the Sonos Controller, we've removed the ability to use the iPhone dock because there was a security vulnerability in the dock that we just identified and we're not going to allocate resources to fixing it so to prevent liability we'll just turn the dock off."
Of course it would be unreasonable to think Sonos would continue supporting it for 100 years, but my question is how does Sonos going to decide now over a reasonable time period of 5 to 10 years?
I still have a SNES system that works fine that's 20 years old. If Apple keeps using lightning connectors for the next 10 years, in theory many customers will still want to use the Sonos dock with adapter.
My interest is because I'm thinking of buying a Sonos iPhone dock and Apple adapter, and I'm concerned the support will go away.
What's worse, like a recent poster who was forced to upgrade his entire computer due to a forced Sonos firmware update, I'm concerned a future firmware update will be ninja-ed in and remove iPhone dock support. In as far as I might be very happy with how my system is working, but Sonos pushes a minor update that blocks iPhone docks at some point in the next few years.
It sounds like the dock is an incredible piece of hardware, and I'm even considering CNCing a custom case around it, to make it work with the adapter so it will have the same fit as the original dock without the adapter with no wobble. I'd hate to drop a ton of money on the dock, drop $100+ CNCing an adapter, drop $30 on the adapter, get used to the functionality such that it becomes part of my daily routine, and then have it taken away.
Or maybe I'm overreacting and the dock will still work even in 50 years? (not that I would want it to).
For example, at some point, Sonos might say "Meh, it's been 3 years since we discontinued it, we don't think a lot of people are still using one with an adapter, and in the latest version of the Sonos Controller, we've removed the ability to use the iPhone dock because there was a security vulnerability in the dock that we just identified and we're not going to allocate resources to fixing it so to prevent liability we'll just turn the dock off."
Of course it would be unreasonable to think Sonos would continue supporting it for 100 years, but my question is how does Sonos going to decide now over a reasonable time period of 5 to 10 years?
I still have a SNES system that works fine that's 20 years old. If Apple keeps using lightning connectors for the next 10 years, in theory many customers will still want to use the Sonos dock with adapter.
My interest is because I'm thinking of buying a Sonos iPhone dock and Apple adapter, and I'm concerned the support will go away.
What's worse, like a recent poster who was forced to upgrade his entire computer due to a forced Sonos firmware update, I'm concerned a future firmware update will be ninja-ed in and remove iPhone dock support. In as far as I might be very happy with how my system is working, but Sonos pushes a minor update that blocks iPhone docks at some point in the next few years.
It sounds like the dock is an incredible piece of hardware, and I'm even considering CNCing a custom case around it, to make it work with the adapter so it will have the same fit as the original dock without the adapter with no wobble. I'd hate to drop a ton of money on the dock, drop $100+ CNCing an adapter, drop $30 on the adapter, get used to the functionality such that it becomes part of my daily routine, and then have it taken away.
Or maybe I'm overreacting and the dock will still work even in 50 years? (not that I would want it to).