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    Pono is Officially Dead

    Many people saw this coming for quite a while, but it's finally official. Pono is dead. I received word that Pono, Ivanhoe, Inc. a Delaware corporation, dissolved as of December 2017. I was able to validate this information with the Delaware Secretary of State's office. Pono lasted from December 16, 2011 until its dissolution on December 21, 2017. Based on the Delaware dissolution documents, Pono had an outstanding debt of $2,519,955 and its creditors moved to foreclose on its assets.

     

    Over the last couple years many Pono fans we're still hanging on optimistically like Lloyd Christmas. After a few updates from the Pono website many said, "So you're telling me there's a chance." Now however it's over, done, never coming back, final, etc...

     

    R.I.P. Pono. 

     

     

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    speavler

    haha, so i can officially delete this pono app off my desktop?  what a lousy piece of software. 

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    jriver

    I wrote this obituary for Pono in March last year:

    https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,109742.0.html

     

    We (JRiver) were one of the creditors and they ended up offering to settle.  We accepted.  I believe they did the same with the other creditors.

     

    I'm sorry to see Pono go.  They gave it a great effort and had a lot going, but in the end, the financial realities caught up with them, as it has with many services before them.

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    Ralf11
    On 2/8/2018 at 5:32 AM, pkane2001 said:

     

    I think part of Pono's problem was that Apple and others were already in the same space with not much to distinguish Pono. Audiophile market is tiny, relatively speaking. Obviously, one can succeed selling both, hardware and content (Apple), but it helps to be early to the party to get a large chunk of the market share.

     

     

    I agree.

     

    The whole thing reminds me of theories about when island ecosystems are invasible to different types of organisms.

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    burnspbesq
    On 2/5/2018 at 5:53 PM, STC said:

    No matter what new format going to come in the future, nothing is going to convince people they need higher resolution than the 16/44 format. 99% would be contend with 320mp3.

    How strange that anyone would trust their ears over your pompous pontification. If it’s all the same to you, I’ll stick to my higher than Redbook resolution files.

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