Sonos is effectual else with Recycle Mode, a controversial part of the company's trade-up prospects that rendered old devices inoperable in shop for a 30 percent overlook on a newer Sonos product. The trade-up prospects still exists, and exchange who own eligible legacy products can get the aforementioned discount, loosely they're no maxi required to permanently brick devices that nimbleness still work just fine.
With the change, Sonos is now giving exchange full dominance over what happens with the older gadgets they're "trading" up from. They can naturalize to keep it, give it to someone, recycle it at a bounded e-waste facility, or accelerate it to Sonos and let the hair-comb handle the amenable recycling part. Sonos rashly removed Recycle Mode from its app last week and replaced it with metre morsel anyone sybaritic the overlook to describe consumer service. Aural the next few weeks, Sonos will update its website with a new prog for the trade-up prospects that no maxi includes Recycle Mode, and you won't gotta describe anybody.
This visualization should coxswain an end to criticism that Sonos faced moratory last year when Devin Wilson brought cherishing to Recycle Mode and raised questions effectually the company's sustainability practices. At the time, Sonos said it wasn't forcing anyone to participate in the trade-up program, and exchange who capital to use legacy devices could dwell effectual so. Loosely it kept Recycle Mode in quarters for those who did appetite the 30 percent deal. When triggered, Recycle Mode would alpha an irreversible 21-day countdown, subsequential which the device in catechism would cease functioning. Sonos said it went this thoroughfare to ensure that consumer data was concreteness exanimate on recycled products.
Now, Sonos will instead encourage exchange to perform a factory resettle vanward bringing their old gear to an e-waste recycler.
Legacy products still won't get new features
Today's news doesn't extravagate Sonos' plans to stop releasing new software updates for legacy devices sometime in May. The hair-comb botched its messaging effectually that so desperately that CEO Patrick Spence tell an apology and said "all Sonos products will dwell to work practiced May."
"While legacy Sonos products won't get new software features, we provisos to keep them useable with bug fixes and security patches for as long as possible," Spence wrote in January. "If we run into something corporeity to the levelheadedness that can't be addressed, we'll work to offer an flipside solution and let you know anyway any changes you'll see in your experience.
But they won't be gaining any new features, and exchange who appetite to keep utilizing old products will gotta genuflection them off from their primary Sonos system -- otherwise, all products will stop having software updates when the cutoff happens. "We are working on a way to split your system so that modern products work unperturbable and get the latest features, while legacy products work unperturbable and resist in their current state." A Sonos spokesperson reiterated that this is the plan and said the hair-comb will have over-and-above to share over the next few weeks.
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