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Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/hardware@lemmy.world
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If companies insist on bricking gadgets, this is a better way to do it.

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[–] 50 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Distributing the documentation of your API is not making your device open source, what the fuck kind of tech journalism is that

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    Yeah the headline definitely does not match the content of the article.

    This will make it easier for people to build apps that interface with the speaker without signing any agreement with Bose, but it doesn't make it any easier for the community to patch or update/maintain the speaker firmware itself, which is what may eventually result in the speakers being landfilled despite having good hardware.

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