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Re:Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of b... by freedomben on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:35AM (#46542227)
Yeah that's quite fair, the article is not very accurate.

It sounds like there are two main pieces to me:

1. Removal of cloud dependency

2. Making usable the API (and providing documentation)

With a minor 3rd piece:

3. The official app will be updated to support the "offline" mode without losing as many features as possible now that the cloud service is going away.

All very laudable things IMHO. I'm actually going to buy one of these

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Re:Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of b... by snackdex on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:44AM (#46542343)
yes. especially when you consider that point 2 requires some amount of investment (writing the api docs, ensuring no ip leaks, etc.)
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Re:Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of b... by pbasista on Thursday January 08, 2026 @11:11AM (#46542676)
Those APIs have already existed. So it is probable that they already had a documentation.

Sanitizing an existing documentation for public release might take notable time and effort if there are 100s of endpoints. But I would assume that is not the case with an API for a speaker.

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