Google escalated a fight with Sonos over the wireless home-speaker market, filing a lawsuit that alleges patent infringement. From a report: The conflict between the two companies, which had been collaborating on incorporating some Google features in Sonos’s speakers, erupted in January when Sonos sued Google for infringing its patents. The speaker maker is facing increased competition from tech giants such…
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Sonos Cofounder Hits Back at Spotify CEO Daniel Ek For Complaining About Apple
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek reiterated previous gripes he’s had with Apple during an interview this week, saying its platform is still not open enough to third-party apps like the Sweden-based music streamer. But according to the cofounder of high-end speaker and home audio company Sonos, Spotify operates an even-more closed ecosystem than Apple. From a report: In a tweet posted Wednesday,…
Looking Beyond Hardware, Sonos Launches Its First Streaming Service
Sonos launched its first audio service Tuesday, called Sonos Radio. It promises free and exclusive music programming across a few dozen stations. From a report: Many of these stations will be supported by advertising — a new business for Sonos, which the company is entering at a time when the ad business is feeling the pressure of an evolving economic downturn….
Using ‘Legacy’ Sonos Devices With Modern Ones Will Prevent Any Future Software Updates
Sonos has announced that come May 2020, a number of its older products will no longer receive software updates. From a report: That’s fair enough, especially considering some of the devices were introduced as far back as 2005. What’s likely to raise the heckles of affected Sonos customers, though, is that should they choose to continue using their legacy products, they…
Sonos Gives a Lame Reason For Bricking Older Devices in ‘Recycle Mode’
Sonos has a good reputation for building quality speakers, but its latest move has disappointed some buyers, reports Engadget. From a report: Recently, the company offered a trade-up program, giving legacy customers 30 percent off the latest One, Beam or Port. In exchange, buyers just had to “recycle” their existing products. However, what Sonos meant by “recycle” was to activate a…
Why Play a Music CD? ‘No Ads, No Privacy Terrors, No Algorithms’
Ben Sisario, American author, academic, and journalist who covers the music industry for The New York Times, shares why he still likes to list to compact discs: I try to keep an eye on all the major platforms out there, which means regularly poking around on about a dozen apps. My go-to sources are Spotify, SoundCloud, Bandcamp and Mixcloud, which has…