Designed for obsolescence! (Score 1)

As several people noted here, this is nothing more than a dumb way to design something. The only thing it is designed for really is to make money for this company and to eventually be obsolete so they can charge you for a brand new system with new "guts". Any idiot with half a brain can build a speaker box of their own and use a Raspberry Pi to control it in a similar manner. All these guys did was basically that, but they created an ecosystem that serves to make them money. Their line about being environmentally friendly is a joke. Bricking a system that still probably has perfectly good speakers is beyond stupidity. If they were smart, they would have made the CPU of these systems modular and have the ability to swap in a newer module when the older hardware was getting to be too old for newer features. The speakers themselves do not change. Show me a $600 Sonos system and I guarantee you I could probably find a speaker at a fraction of the cost that would sound just as good if not better.That would have made this entire ecosystem less of a waste of money. Give me separate component speakers and I'll build my own system and avoid garbage like this like the plague. This is essentially the modern day version of Bose, which isn't saying much at all once you've worked retail and know the deal with those speaker systems and the pricing.