I tip my hat to #Bose for giving owners of soon-to-be End of Life/support speakers the garantuee that the devices will continue to function and giving them the information needed to collectively build new tools to do even more with them.
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@jwildeboer I wish more tech would do this. Actually, I'd like legislation requiring it. There are so many devices that went under in the "smart" era, leaving their owners with expensive paperweights. I'd especially love to see Logitech's Harmony remote system get opened up like this, since I still use mine.
I wonder how many of those gadgets have other uses besides the one their vendors sold them for.
I'm reminded of the CueCat. Its intended application was rather questionable, but it was repurposed as a general-purpose barcode scanner by enterprising programmers, and *that* was useful.
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I wonder how many of those gadgets have other uses besides the one their vendors sold them for.
I'm reminded of the CueCat. Its intended application was rather questionable, but it was repurposed as a general-purpose barcode scanner by enterprising programmers, and *that* was useful.
@argv_minus_one @jwildeboer There were so many kickstarters and whatnot trying to survive that it's hard to keep any track. I used to cover things like "smart" thermostats and doorbells and mobile tech as a tech journalist, so most I saw were pretty single-purpose. I'd say almost every company I knew that wasn't already a giant either failed outright or got bought up (and then usually got discontinued). I'm sure there are notable exceptions, but I can't think of them at the moment.
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@jwildeboer I wish more tech would do this. Actually, I'd like legislation requiring it. There are so many devices that went under in the "smart" era, leaving their owners with expensive paperweights. I'd especially love to see Logitech's Harmony remote system get opened up like this, since I still use mine.
It's not just specs we need though. I had a bose bluetooth speaker that became a paperweight when the battery wore out. We need things to be built for repair.
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In before the first „they should make all firmware and schematics open source!1!!“ replies
When a company announces End of Life (EOL) of a product, there should be a law or regulation that demands that latest at the day of the EOL all service manuals are made available for free to at least the owners of said product, better though to the general public.
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When a company announces End of Life (EOL) of a product, there should be a law or regulation that demands that latest at the day of the EOL all service manuals are made available for free to at least the owners of said product, better though to the general public.
@jwildeboer release source code, too
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When a company announces End of Life (EOL) of a product, there should be a law or regulation that demands that latest at the day of the EOL all service manuals are made available for free to at least the owners of said product, better though to the general public.
@jwildeboer totally agree.
this initiative had a lot of press early last year, and while it is specifically focused on computer games, i think the effort is worth it to push this thinking forward.
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When a company announces End of Life (EOL) of a product, there should be a law or regulation that demands that latest at the day of the EOL all service manuals are made available for free to at least the owners of said product, better though to the general public.
@jwildeboer I'm not 100% sure, but i think aviation has a regulation like this - not publishing, but available on request.
(as a student i worked in a company doing parts for airplanes)
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@jwildeboer I'm not 100% sure, but i think aviation has a regulation like this - not publishing, but available on request.
(as a student i worked in a company doing parts for airplanes)
@lobingera @jwildeboer precedent like that could be a real boon to an effort to push new regulation!
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When a company announces End of Life (EOL) of a product, there should be a law or regulation that demands that latest at the day of the EOL all service manuals are made available for free to at least the owners of said product, better though to the general public.
@jwildeboer And drivers
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When a company announces End of Life (EOL) of a product, there should be a law or regulation that demands that latest at the day of the EOL all service manuals are made available for free to at least the owners of said product, better though to the general public.
@jwildeboer The law should require to open up all required infromation for repairability and continued usage
OR
buyback at full retail priceSo they have an option
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I tip my hat to #Bose for giving owners of soon-to-be End of Life/support speakers the garantuee that the devices will continue to function and giving them the information needed to collectively build new tools to do even more with them. Thank you, Bose!
SoundTouch Cloud Service Ending | What It Means for You | Bose
Bose is ending SoundTouch app and cloud service support in May 2026. Learn how this impacts your product.
(www.bose.com)
@jwildeboer More of these please
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When a company announces End of Life (EOL) of a product, there should be a law or regulation that demands that latest at the day of the EOL all service manuals are made available for free to at least the owners of said product, better though to the general public.
Also the servers become public property and the community gets to take them to keep them online @jwildeboer
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