Sonos Makes a Spotify Playlist for Apple's HomePod With Hidden 'We're Going to Be Friends' Message

[EdT]

Yet I don’t like such tactics from any company trying to upsell a product with vague notions of a feature. Buh-bye Sonos

You’ve just described Amazon Google Sony Samsung HP Dell Microsoft ......pretty much every consumer software/hardware company in existence, including Apple. It goes in waves as to who is worse, but everyone has occupied the top spot.

 

[boshii]

Hi,

Sorry if this has already been answered.

Does anyone know if the HomePod is going to be integrated with Sonos. So for example, If I have the HomePod in the kitchen and Sonos everywhere else in the house will I be able to ask Siri to play music in the living room or bedroom?

Thanks,

Mike

Airplay 2 will allow the HomePod and Sonos to work together. We will not know how well they work together until the AirPlay 2 update for Sonos.

 

[budfoot]

SONOS just broke it's app and 8.3.1 is a disaster, forced sign ins, all settings and playlist gone.

Friends I am no longer with SONOS - considerable investment made their equipment now I feel like smashing the lot (4 speakers two pairs).

At the same time Home POD explodes onto the market.

Stupid SONOS. I will never buy anymore of your hardware and I will never recommend you hardware all because you have borked your app and controller and regressed. Who owns the hardware?

Apple has an established eco system of computers products. You don't have to sign in on your Apple ID to enjoy the functionality say of your laptop. Having to sign-in just to play some music on a speaker you already own... going backed to wired or bluetooth is the solution.

Having also a SONY X33, that's the way forward if you just want to listen music (I see they have newer larger models too) and it's portable with a battery you can charge off USB.

SONOS = still tripping over cables (yea I know!) and constant setups and re-setup all the time.

+ this is not a pitch to buy HomePOD on no, but it's a mess for SONOS considering the timing.

Stay away from SONOS at this point (and maybe this kind of product as it really might not suit) and just to underline the reality that my experience turns out to by wholly common you may witness many users making exactly the same points by venturing over to the SONOS support forum -

Why do I need to sign in? - https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/why-do-i-need-to-sign-in-6788687

New App Sucks - https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/new-app-sucks-6292388

You all thought Apple had QA problems - SONOS just made Apples job a lot easier.

What's the point of coming in here and trying to pass off two OLD community posts (one 3 years old and one almost a year old) to bash Sonos?