Editing Sonos

Sonos is a maufacturer of audio devices.

== "Recycle mode" ==

In 2019, Sonos rendered formerly perfectly working devices into paperweights by disabling them altogether, just because those devices were no longer receiving software updates. Customers were offered a 30 percent discount on a new Sonos device if they accepted Sonos to intentionally remotely brick their existing device. Once a device is in Sonos "Recycle Mode", it can no longer be used [1], [2]. Sonos later ended this highly controversial and environmentally unfriendly program, but the damage was already done to otherwise still working hardware [3].

However, since 2023 there is an open source project to recover devices that Sonos has put into "Recycle Mode" [4].

== References ==

* [1] https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/unable-to-set-up-a-sonos-product-in-recycle-mode
* [2] https://www.engadget.com/2019-12-31-sonos-recycle-mode-explanation-falls-flat.html?guccounter=1
* [3] https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/5/21166777/sonos-ending-recycle-mode-trade-up-program-sustainability
* [4] https://github.com/dbmaxpayne/Sonos-DSP