They did issue a fix: "Buy a new CPU please!"
That's why they don't mind the reputation hit. If 1 person swears allegiance to Intel as a result but 2 people buy new AMD chips, they're still ahead. And people will forget eventually. But AMD won't forget the Q3 2024 sales figures.
It’s worth checking out Louis Rossmann’s take too: https://youtu.be/TF4zH8bJDI8
I rarely ever find myself disagreeing with either of them, so this is an interesting situation.
Edit: This is also a good take about live service, separate from the "Stop Killing Games" initiative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO38QvKraTQ
They’re trashing our rights! Trashing!
I’m just surprised there is such a thing as a “Biden loyalist”.
This seems intractible.
Malware scanners want to run at as low a level as possible so they can catch stuff.
Fault-recovery mechanisms want to run at as low a level as possible so there are very few things that can cause a BSOD.
It seems like the only possible solution is “just never make any mistakes”.
Like, either don’t have any vulnerabilities that a user space scanner can’t catch, or don’t ever ship a bad update to a kernel mode scanner.
Headline makes it sound like the senators previously urged the FTC but were ignored.
Two things:
1: The “urging” mentioned took place today.
2:
In March, the F.T.C., which is responsible for policing unfair and deceptive business practices, solicited reports from consumers about the issue, but an agency spokeswoman said she couldn’t comment on whether the agency is investigating.
The RNC hadn’t happened yet.
I appreciate the notion, but I fear it would probably just result in management saying “just NERD HARDER”. The flip side of being more careful and focused is being less flexible. Not gonna replace that ancient foundational framework that was deprecated in 2015 if it risks legal liability.
Having been in this position, I’m sure having two apps is hell for them and increasingly complicated the more the features and back-end services overlap. And there would probably have been drastically more overlap between v2 and v3 than v1 and v2.
Ultimately, you just wanna be on one codebase.
I’m not saying this is a good or okay move by Sonos as a company to their consumers. But the die was cast when the product roadmap was established, and the short-sighted technical solutions people are throwing out in the comments are far worse options for the company (and consumers, in the long run) than just accepting the current problem and moving on.
(Photo of IoT dev living in your proposed world, colorized 2024)
It's not that simple. They sold new hardware that claimed app support, and the app support was only in the new codebase.
Not at all the point, but:
Michael Manga