ByBill Toulas-December 13, 2019.969 The newly introduced “Communication Limits” of Apple can be quickly and conveniently bypassed across multiple routes. Children may add new numbers to the book of addresses without having to provide Pin code for their parents. With the announcement of iOs 14, Apple aims to patch all troublesome glitches as iOs 13 has proved to be particularly problematic.ByBill Toulas-December 31 2019.970 Sonos bricks up old devices through permanent and irreversible firmware updates for deactivation. Thousands of properly working tools that stress the atmosphere are being scrapped. People sell these gadgets and trick people into thinking they’ve purchased a Sonos speaker at a discount. A few days ago a Twitter user took the public’s attention to a strange recycling process by Sonos. According to the man’s sources, the supplier of quality speakers was bricking customer devices that agreed to participate in their “trade-up” scheme making them only good for scrapping. As these devices were fully operational the moment before, they could be sold for at least $200 instead of becoming if good as garbage considering the high build quality that Sonos products generally have. Sonos throws any claimed eco-friendliness in the trash to sell more speakers. Pic.twitter.com/4yL4XkzfvQ ralph waldo cybersyn (@atomicthumbs) December 27, 2019 Sonos does so as part of their “trade-up” offer, which offers legacy owners a 30 percent deal on a new purchase over the 21 days following the permanent deactivation of the unit. The strange part is that this deactivation is not recoverable, so that speakers are effectively bricked once and for all even when attempting to uninstall the firmware. The products eligible to participate in this system are Connect: Amp Zp90 Zp80 Zp100 Zp120 and Play:5 (Gen 1). So that is neither environmentally friendly nor economically beneficial to the consumer. However, it makes perfect business sense for Sonos who sells new speakers thus eliminating old speakers from the market. This story generated negative advertising and criticism from the group they said on “The Verge”: “The truth is that these older products lack the processing power and memory to sustain modern Sonos experiences. Over time technology will advance in ways these items can not handle. Those new features aren’t relevant to some owners. Accordingly, they can opt out of the Trade Up programme. But it’s important for other owners who have modern Sonos speakers that can offer these new experiences. So the software Trade Up is an easy improvement option for these owners.