{"id":71253,"date":"2025-10-11T03:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71253\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T03:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:16:07","slug":"bose-angers-customers-by-ending-cloud-streaming-for-old-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71253\/","title":{"rendered":"Bose Angers Customers By Ending Cloud Streaming for Old Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/63579Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Bose Corp.<\/a> announced this week that it will discontinue the cloud infrastructure for its \u201cSoundTouch\u201d line of audio speakers in February, rendering the devices unable to directly stream music from services like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/SPOT:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/P:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/AMZN:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Amazon Music<\/a> and others. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Customers who still own and actively use the products, some of whom have invested thousands of dollars into Bose hardware, immediately voiced frustration with the company\u2019s decision and framed it as another example of so-called \u201csmart\u201d consumer tech gadgets having an arbitrary expiration date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bose Corp. announced this week that it will discontinue the cloud infrastructure for its \u201cSoundTouch\u201d line of audio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5740,56494,4864,356,16288,1702,263,111,139,69,8183,56495,145,31634],"class_list":["post-71253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-amazon-com-inc","tag-bose-corp","tag-consumer-discretionary","tag-gadgets","tag-hardware","tag-infrastructure","tag-lifestyle","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-software","tag-sonos-inc","tag-technology","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}