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But we just don't care. And what are you going to do?
What happened, vulnerabilities which are not disclosed now?
I got one on sale a year ago, it's a really well-built nice device, would be great if they open-source the missing parts of it (the GPL'd kernel was released some time ago, but it's not the latest I think)
It would be easy to flip a couple GitHub repos to "public" and call it a day. It would be easy to wipe proprietary IP from the latest version, shove whatever's left in a ZIP file, and upload it somewhere online. It would be easy to do literally nothing except publish instructions on how to wipe the flash. That alone would be enough to allow some clever people online to get a normal Android installation onto these thi…
I had just remembered it existed recently, glad I didn't look into getting one. My assumption was that it had lost support but would work indefinitely, how naive of me.
Which makes it even more puzzling that they can't keep it running...
And EU is totally fine with this? Should force them to open source it.
So this time, the US needs to handle this on their own...
I like how they don’t actually answer the “why” question, “streamlining” is not an answer. They basically said because we’re changing things and this is one of the things we’re changing. Not being snarky but imo it would have been better PR copy to just not have the question at all.
It's a Web-App. So what's the effort to keep this thing running for a while longer?
My guess is that they reached a stage where they should touch the OS again, and there's no-one in the company who can do it...
What's wrong with a usb pen drive full of tunes?
You get to keep the files!
I don't have one of these and and this irritates me as a Spotify subscriber. The least they could do is credit accounts with Spotify Premium, for those that bought these devices.
I'm nearly a day one subscriber but i'm currently exploring my options to leave.
I was always surprised car thing didn't have an aux out, it would have made it so much more useful for older cars.
If anybody at Spotify with the influence to make it happen is reading this: please publish an open source firmware loader (or specs to build one, or similar) to allow community driven projects to be developed on this hardware. You'd gain a lot of good will by doing this.
I don't have one of these and and this irritates me as a Spotify subscriber. The least they could do is credit accounts with Spotify Premium, for those that bought these devices.
If they had done this, like, giving 1 year of subscription for free, that would have been an ethical and environmental scandal but the fact they did nothing is just insulting their customers. I'm nearly a day one subscriber but i'm currently exploring my options to leave.