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Sonos Announces 10% Price Hikes On Most Speakers (cepro.com) 58

CIStud writes: Sonos announces price hikes for Arc, Amp, Roam, Sub, Five, One and One SL speakers citing chip shortage and supply chain. Sonos Arc's price is leaping by $100 from $799 to $899. Not every product will be seeing a large jump in price, as some products like the Sonos Roam are seeing increases of just $10. Other products receiving only small price increases include the Sonos One and Sonos One SL ($20 increase), while others are not seeing pricing changes whatsoever like the Sonos Move and Sonos Port. Speaking of the far-reaching impact of the global chip shortage, Google and Indian telecom operator Jio announced this week they are delaying the launch of their affordable smartphone aimed at 300 million users.
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Sonos Announces 10% Price Hikes On Most Speakers

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  • My budget will be thankful when smartphones hit the $50 price point. I'll be able to afford to smash a phone every month.
    • Adjusting for inflation it will still set you back several hundreds.
    • I already bought a true smartphone for $50.

      Its limitation was its 2GB RAM, which made web browsing a pain. But that was more a flaw of the insane bloat of the inner-platform effect of the modern web. The thing would have had no issues with the information content alone, not even full-res video, if streamed.
      And of course its camera was quite crap. But only in terms of resolution and color balance and maybe contrast. It was good enough for "hey,l look at this!" snapshots.
      Its battery life got you through the d

    • You already can. Just buy tracfones. They have quad-core, 2GB phones for that kind of money. They're not speed demons but they are functional.

      I wouldn't want to use their service, and the phones are nontrivial to move to other carriers, but if you just need a little tablet for something they have a decent price on a decent moto phone most of the time.

  • Anyone paying those prices will pay 10% more too. Price can't be an issue for them or they wouldn't buy those overpriced things anyway.

    • Yes and no. For Sonos specifically, the price increases just might be enough to keep some people from the mistake of buying them. I have a large system, and really wish I had something else. I love having music everywhere, but the fact that they (and so many similar systems) rely on a flat network topology causes so much pain.

  • when i click on the link of https://slashdot.org/index2.pl... [slashdot.org] the latest new is Posted by msmash on Thursday July 29, 2021, that's long time ago and i search privacy in slashdot, https://slashdot.org/index2.pl... [slashdot.org], the latest post is at Thursday July 29, 2021 can anyone tell me why?
  • Thanks Sonos! (Score:5, Insightful)

    by DrMrLordX ( 559371 ) on Saturday September 11, 2021 @06:31AM (#61784647)

    Now we have even more incentive not to purchase speakers that brick themselves.

    (yes, I'm aware that Sonos no longer bricks "recycled" speakers, but they could easily bring back the policy at a future time)

    • Re: Thanks Sonos! (Score:5, Interesting)

      by e3m4n ( 947977 ) on Saturday September 11, 2021 @06:47AM (#61784687)
      Yea thats probably the biggest reason for me not to get them. I own one Sonos device. Its tne one that has the line-out called Connect. I got it to feed the amp that runs my in-house audio (i built my house in 2002 and wired in-wall speakers). It used to be great, i could stream tunes straight from my iphone, etc. then they pulled that S1 shit and REMOVED a feature that was previously working. Fucking assholes. Thats like selling you a car and removing the passenger seat 2 years later. How they didnt get sued over that is insane. Then I read about the bricking. Greediest bastards since Cisco imo. Remember when cisco refused to let you use used cisco gear and went out of their way denying you firmware? You couldnt even get smartnet on used gear. I only wished Sonos suffered the same counterfeit problem cisco does. Because those cunts really deserve it.
      • by Anonymous Coward

        Remember when cisco refused to let you use used cisco gear and went out of their way denying you firmware?

        Whadya mean? That's the entire Meraki range and they *still* do that.

        It used to be great, i could stream tunes straight from my iphone, etc. then they pulled that S1 shit and REMOVED a feature that was previously working.

        Get a cheap AirPort on eBay, craigslist, etc.? Also has 1/8" line-out sockets for streaming audio from iDevices.

        • by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

          Whadya mean? That's the entire Meraki range and they *still* do that.

          You can buy used Meraki gear just fine. You just need to make sure the company properly de-registers them from their account, otherwise it will be locked to their account and you won't be able to manage it.

          The thing is, deregistering them means they stop working, so you'll have to buy a service plan with it when you register it on your account.

          We've found them cheaper to run than a standard Cisco with a support plan, so they're slightly ch

    • by ceoyoyo ( 59147 )

      Hmmmm. What's the going price for bricked Sonos speakers on eBay? Should be easy enough to make a new board with a bluetooth chip and solder it in. That and a sharpie and you could launch your new "Sanos" brand.

    • by lsllll ( 830002 )
      I listen to at least 6 hours of music a day on my NHT 3.3 speakers now that I'm working from home. Sonos and the like can't touch vintage audio like that. Plus my speakers will never brick themselves!
  • Sonos announces price hikes for Arc, Amp, Roam, Sub, Five, One and One SL speakers citing chip shortage and supply chain

    What they mean is, although the parts for the product cost $50, they see that there are some shortages and are using that fact to increase the price whilst having something to blame other than their corporate need to increase profits as currently the product is popular.

    They are not increasing the price because they have to, they are increasing the price because they can.

    • My first thought was "Sonos uses automotive chips in their deisgn? Who knew?"

      The test for their price increase justification will be this: does the price of Sonos equipment drop similarly once chip supply parity is achieved?

      Nah, I didn't think so either.
  • as promised years ago. I like the convenience of voice control but I hate that Sonos didn’t go through with their promise and now I either need to not use those mics are use Google/Amazon.
    • Wait, so you buy ${literally most locked down speaker on the planet}, and then complain that it's locked down?

      Dude...

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      [Camel case and words with underscores are not "ascii" art, but variable names, you stupid fucking Slashdot filter!]

  • Oh right, Sonos, I remember them because they are a bag of lames [slashdot.org].

    I'd rather roll my own solution than fuck around with something created by gross incompetents.

    • by Ksevio ( 865461 )

      Sonos is pretty lame in a lot of ways, but there aren't really any good open solutions out there. I like to keep as many of my devices from requiring cloud access and ideally communicating through open APIs, but for speakers there aren't many options. Best seems to be making something pretend to be a Chromecast or Apple speaker device, but even that has its own issues

  • by kenh ( 9056 ) on Saturday September 11, 2021 @08:05AM (#61784801) Homepage Journal

    Price increases are now valid subjects for /.?

    And that someone is working on an "affordable smartphone for 300 million poor Indians" is also news?

    • And that someone is working on an "affordable smartphone for 300 million poor Indians" is also news?

      OLPC was news for a long time on Slashdot, so it might as well be.

  • vendor lock (Score:3, Insightful)

    by awwshit ( 6214476 ) on Saturday September 11, 2021 @08:39AM (#61784853)

    Why would you buy an expensive proprietary system where the hardware will be discontinued from under you in a couple of years? The physical product will last much longer than you'll ever be able to use it. The biggest issue with Sonos is the software that limits how you can use your 'speaker', its really spyware.

    • There are ways of getting their app out of your system, but it is painful. The biggest problem with them is that any network complexity makes using them painful.

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