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Sonos faces criticism for latest software update

Customers of smart speaker manufacturer Sonos are criticizing the company for its newest batch of software updates, in which Sonos announced that they would no longer be supporting older devices, despite the company's latest estimates reporting that 92 percent of the products it had ever shipped was still in use.

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