I wish they would have sued Spotify.
Spotify frequently aggressively breaks Sonos for what I assume is anti-competitive reasons.
Spotify frequently aggressively breaks Sonos for what I assume is anti-competitive reasons.
Spotify just wants Sonos to implement their Connect protocol and so their native Sonos integration is pretty half-assed. But implementing connect makes Sonos a 'dumb' speaker so it's obviously unthinkable.
Any insight as to why they would do that? As far as I'm aware Spotify has no interest in selling hardware of their own, and Sonos isn't competing with them on the streaming front.
I'm personally really happy with this because the implementation is really slick. They're using their leverage on smart speaker makers to support them rather than the reverse because they can -- and the result from a user perspective is really nice since there's no weird compatibility issues. You either speak the connect protocol or you don't.