• paraphrand@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    It’s amazing how they basically perfected something, and then just dropped it in the trash.

    I know it’s easy to explain that they basically sold them to everyone who wanted one. But it really feels like a device that/situation that a company like Google could maintain as a good will thing. As a standard. As a protocol.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      That’s pretty much their MO though. If you look at their list of dead products, there’s a lot of quality products that canned for whatever reason.

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        4 days ago

        One theory I’ve heard here is that Patent law is the culprit in this case: Sonos has a patent they’re trolling and Google had to stop infringing by discontinuing new devices.