In 2030, You Won’t Own Any Gadgets

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By buying those devices consumers bought access to Sonos’ services and Sonos effectively leased their hardware.When you the consumer pay a one-time fee that doesn’t help a company keep the lights on.

It’s why Apple a company that’s known for its hardware started pivoting to services in 2019.When you the consumer pay a one-time fee that doesn’t help a company keep the lights on anymore.When hardware is merely a vessel for software and not a useful thing on its own you don’t really get to decide anything.

Even before Sonos retired its legacy products the company offered a method for people to recycle older gadgets in exchange for a discount on newer devices.With Sonos’ legacy devices the company actually spelled out the four options users had but stacked the deck to steer consumers in a particular direction.You could continue to use the devices with the understanding that as time went on Sonos would likely stop providing security updates.That’s because Sonos’ new app didn’t support older speakers and so consumers lost the ability to group new and legacy devices.Of all these the second one makes the most sense if you want to continue using Sonos’ services.

The internet is now considered a utility and it’s not like we can put connected devices back into Pandora’s box.It’s why it’s OK for Big Tech to void your warranty if you jailbreak certain devices or force you to spend more money to get a broken gadget repaired by an authorized shop.If your smart home of the future comes with its own email address and operating system what happens when the company controlling it pushes out an update you don’t like?We don’t control whether the management company will change or cut us off from the apps that allow us to pay rent put in maintenance requests grant friends and family access or reserve common facilities.Each one of these companies has argued that people who bought their products weren’t allowed to repair them unless they were from a pre-approved shop.Isn’t that

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