Sonos Execs Launched Ill-Received App Despite Employee Protests

[Rookbird¥]

You can’t learn from your mistakes if you’ve never made one. MBA school of management.

A wise person learns from other people’s mistakes.

 

[erihp]

A wise person learns from other people’s mistakes.

These types fail up. They have bad examples.

You think this person knows 'failures' in normal day to day life? hahaha

Hell this CEO didnt even learn from the people they employed who already got it RIGHT!

 

[rviets]

They did that: play.sonos.com

You can access your system from anywhere.

There's another side to that coin though, that I can't have multiple networks for my system. Not a big deal for the home entertainment crowd, but with the Move and Roam, I have to bring it home to make any changes or update firmware.

I bought a Roam for work, it's on work wifi somehow (figured it out in an old version of the app), but these days I can't see it in the app or use airplay without maintaining a separate account and app on a separate device.

Is it a huge deal to bring it home occasionally? No. Should I have to? Absolutely not.

 

[erihp]

There's another side to that coin though, that I can't have multiple networks for my system. Not a big deal for the home entertainment crowd, but with the Move and Roam, I have to bring it home to make any changes or update firmware.

I bought a Roam for work, it's on work wifi somehow (figured it out in an old version of the app), but these days I can't see it in the app or use airplay without maintaining a separate account and app on a separate device.

Is it a huge deal to bring it home occasionally? No. Should I have to? Absolutely not.

These products are too expensive for stupid limitations like that, changed on a whim by the manufacturer. Of course this isnt on the pretty box when you are enticed to buy it.

I would never buy a Sonos product, especially after this debacle, ever!

 

[Take Flight]

I tested 2 HomePods vs an arc soundbar and sub. The Sonos system absolutely blows away the HomePods and I sold them. The HomePods are terrible at virtualizing a center channel. Sonos soundbars don’t need a separate L/R because it has those speakers already built into the soundbar. The Sonos system was not designed to be a discrete system. Otherwise you would just build a traditional home theater system. I have both and I would say the Sonos system holds its own and the sound processing for Dolby atmos is quite impressive.

I don’t doubt the arc + sub to homepod comparison bc the price is no comparison. You just can’t fake left and right stereo separation when the speaker is literally less than 3 feet separation. They sell the speaker hardware to be modular so just odd it is not even an option.