Image copyright Getty Images Owners of Sonos products have reacted angrily to the firm’s announcement that it will no longer issue software updates for its older devices from May.
Many say they have spent hundreds of pounds on Sonos speaker products for their homes over the years.
Newer Sonos products connected with the older ones will also be left out of future updates.
The change affects four models sold between 2019 and 2019, including the Connect: Amp and Connect.
Without the updates, they will eventually lose functionality.
Access to other services will also become limited.
Sonos said the hardware had been “stretched to its technical limits in terms of memory and processing power.”
affected customers can upgrade to a newer device with a 90% discount in return for recycling the old product .
But the news has annoyed many Sonos owners.
And Sonos told BBC News % of the products it had ever shipped were still in use.
BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones tweeted it was “very poor marketing and damaging for the brand”.
Sonos’s share price fell slightly following the announcement, closing at $ 14. 92 (£ 14), down from a high of $ . .
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