philippe_44 wrote: 
> And like in any global market there is not room for many players. When
> it’s about dedicated multi room audio business you have Sonos and nobody
> else (tons of other systems I know but they are tiny niches) then you
> have the free alternative that is dominated by LMS and that’s it. These
> two occupy their respective spaces and the rest are small niches. Of
> course you have multi-purpose systems like Google, Amazon, Apple but
> they are part of a broader systems people don’t buy them primary for
> audio, even if they can do a good job

I don't think there is a real commercial market for hardware audio
player with proprietary software.  There maybe small niches.  Sonos
tried working with Google and then Google stabbed them in the back and
now both have lawsuits in either direction. See NYTimes article &
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/21055712/sonos-google-patent-lawsuit-smart-speaker-voice-assistant-platform-monopolies.


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