How IoT betrays us: Today, Sonos speakers. Tomorrow, Alexa and electric cars? ZDNet

Earlier this week, Sonos notified customers it would end support for a number of its legacy products released in the first 10 years of its existence, including the popular first-generation PLAY:5 speakers. But some of these affected products were still on the market as late as 2015, such as the Connect and Connect:Amp, which would make them only five years old from the date of purchase. On Thursday, January 23, due to huge backlash from customers and the technology media, the CEO, Patrick Spence, authored a corporate blog post apologizing for this end of support and stated that the company would, in fact, support its older products with bug and security fixes beyond May of 2020 even if new feature updates were not possible. The reason why Sonos initially decided to end support is that these first-generation products lack sufficient processing power and storage to accommodate new features. End of service is relatively normal for consumer electronics products that are five years old or more, particularly personal computers and mobile devices.