Earlier quoted context omitted.
The newer era speakers, and the five have audio in.
Ah, through USB-C? That didn't occur to me.
Through an audio jack.
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
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Re: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
#142Patrick destroyed a successful company, and will be receiving millions of dollars on exit. His current replacement was an executive at the failed Quibi service. Nothing in tech will improve until there are actual consequences for people like this. Serial failures just hop from job to job. ruining products and lives along the way.
I replied the same thing in another thread, but Patrick was at Sonos for 12 years, and 14 years at RIM before that, so he doesn't really fit the MO of a "bouncer."
I think his point is that he can likely find a job elsewhere even after this.
That he receive a golden parachute is cringe worthy.
Re: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
#143Patrick destroyed a successful company, and will be receiving millions of dollars on exit. His current replacement was an executive at the failed Quibi service. Nothing in tech will improve until there are actual consequences for people like this. Serial failures just hop from job to job. ruining products and lives along the way.
It's not just the people at the top. It's totally normal and acceptable to release software that doesn't work. I can count the number of times that I couldn't complete a transaction in a physical store on one hand, but I regularly can't accomplish what I want on a web page or mobile interface because the software straight-up doesn't work. This relevant XKCD is right on point: https://xkcd.com/2030/ The problem may ha…
You blame Agile?
Re: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
#144Patrick destroyed a successful company, and will be receiving millions of dollars on exit. His current replacement was an executive at the failed Quibi service. Nothing in tech will improve until there are actual consequences for people like this. Serial failures just hop from job to job. ruining products and lives along the way.
It's not just the people at the top. It's totally normal and acceptable to release software that doesn't work. I can count the number of times that I couldn't complete a transaction in a physical store on one hand, but I regularly can't accomplish what I want on a web page or mobile interface because the software straight-up doesn't work. This relevant XKCD is right on point: https://xkcd.com/2030/ The problem may ha…
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Re: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
#145We have a Sonos speaker in the Kitchen and I'm so done with it. We're going to renovate our kitchen in a few months and I plan to install a pair of speakers in the roof and hook them up to a Raspberry Pi with a Hifiberry amp and the HifiberryOS. I'm sure there will be issues but at least I'll be free of Sonos.
Why not just put your sound system on a shelf like everyone else so you don't need to renovate your kitchen next time you want to upgrade it.
They're just regular speakers you can connect to regular amps. If the raspberry pi doesn't work out I can simply switch that out.
Re: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not just the people at the top. It's totally normal and acceptable to release software that doesn't work. I can count the number of times that I couldn't complete a transaction in a physical store on one hand, but I regularly can't accomplish what I want on a web page or mobile interface because the software straight-up doesn't work. This relevant XKCD is right on point: https://xkcd.com/2030/ The problem may ha…
You blame Agile?
Agile is just an example. Management strategies in general are based on gaming metrics that benefit management and sales departments, at the cost of customers and developers.
Re: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
#147Re: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
#148IIRC Sonos emerged as a tool to allow you to access all of your music, from different speakers throughout your house. I might be glossing over some details but isn't this problem largely solved by other products almost everyone has now? Any cloud music service, a smart phone, and some bluetooth speakers? In my entire social network, I know of one person who has all of his music stored locally and who cares about the…
> isn't this problem largely solved by other products No? I don’t want to use my speakers as output for all the audio from any given device, only the stream I want. So, the audio system needs to be capable of managing the stream itself, independent of the device I use to select/start/stop the stream. I don’t know of anything other than Sonos that manages that well. (Never mind the sibling comments point about syncing…
WiiM?