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It feels almost time to start referring to partnerships rather than companies.

How long before (presuming legislation continues to lag) we have

Apple-Fedex-Disney

Amazon-Ford-Spotify

Google-DHL-Sonos

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The last line is silly. Sonos is not going to align specifically with Google. Because Sonos has a business model that is neutral to other home cylinders and voice assistants, and Amazon Alexa users can already use their Sonos speakers together with Alexa -- but not (yet) with either Google's or Apple's assistants. Sonos is similar to Roku in that sense.

At the moment Sonos works with Amazon's Alexa, not the other voice cylinders.

The above comment has been down-voted (!?) despite being factual, according to Sonos themselves!

- Sonos and Alexa integration is available as a beta version.

- "Google Home Smart Assistant doesn’t work with your Sonos system natively" ("The Google Assistant will be supported on Sonos One in 2018") [1]

- Sonos has not yet released their implementation of AirPlay 2 which is what Apple's HomePod ecosystem will be relying on. Apparently Apple themselves are not quite ready with AirPlay 2.

[1] https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4251/~/go...

You misunderstood the intent of the parent post. It's not to illustrate which companies are partnering, but to demonstrate the type of partnering we might be likely to see. You are missing the broader commentary, and only commenting on the immaterial, specific example they provided.

That's a well and fine point. However, by being unclear there is no indication that those companies are not partnering. That could be construed as propagating false rumors. It's not just the intent that is important, but how people are likely to perceive it.

I'm happy with that view and will state for the record that they weren't factual partnerships.

The transit companies were also arbitrary.

Nope, I didn't misunderstand the intent. I pointed out the fact that Sonos is not a good example of a company that might partner exclusively or even mostly with Google, due to their "voice-and-cylinder-neutral" business model as well as the already-available integration with Amazon.

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