I’ve been writing about Sonos over the past months and my ramblings about whether to get one. I decided not to, and judging from recent correspondence my decision was correct.

Firstly, they’ve announced a partnership with Real’s Rhapsody programme. Which pretty much means they’ll never support iTunes Music Store format. Hey, if you’re gonna partner with a company, best make it the one most likely to fail huh?

Now they’ve ‘found that one key area of MacOSX 10.4’ breaks Sonos’ compatibility and that a new version will be available mid-late May 2005. ‘Please do not upgrade to 10.4 if you wish your existing OS X 10.2 or 10.3 Mac to continue to work with Sonos’.

That’s really funny. How much does it cost to subscribe to the Apple Developer Network? The GM version of Tiger was out weeks ago. Moreover, how come lots of small third party software developers have already managed to get their products ready for Tiger, and Sonos haven’t. Lots.