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by anc84 3221 days ago
"The customer can choose to acknowledge the policy, or can accept that over time their product may cease to function" (emphasize mine).
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You read that and think they're going to tunnel into your network and break your speakers? To me this is clearly lawyer CYA language to ensure that when Spotify changes their API and Sonos only supports it in a future software update, you will have been warned.
I read that and I think they're totally free to.

And they might. Which would be more frustrating to a user - their Sonos turning into regular speakers, or arbitrarily and randomly not functioning as expected?

Imagine the difference between your phone suddenly bricking itself, or random refusing to dial certain numbers.

Free to in what sense?
Free in the sense that they can stop supporting any streaming services on your Sonos device.
Free to in that if they did so, you would have no recourse according to this document.