bpa wrote: > 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.
I agree that it's probably Sonos which is suffering the most from the general ecosystem players. They used to have a good place under the sun but yes, probably a large base of their users bought Sonos because it was convenient, not because they cared a lot about having a dedicated audio system. And when Google,Amazon and Apple started to play there, it was "good enough" and conveniently integrated with the rest of a larger system so, well, most of the base went away. LMS 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBoxOne, XBMC, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, JRiver 21, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, , Pi B3, B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Odroid-C2, Cubie2, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112042 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
