Thursday, January 2, 2020

Sonos Under Fire For "Recycle Mode"

Santa Barbara-based smart speaker manufacturer Sonos is being panned for its new "Recycle Mode" and trade-up program, which deliberately bricks its older devices. Sonos is selling its trade up program as a way to be "environmentally friendly"; however, according to electronics recycling facilities, those older devices still have a lot of value on the used market, and are forcing useful equipment to be scrapped instead. Users on Twitter complained "Sonos is throwing any claimed environmental friendliness in the trash in order to sell more speakers."