{"id":5603,"date":"2017-01-23T08:48:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T22:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2017-01-23T08:48:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T22:48:47","slug":"sonos-has-a-new-ceo-with-an-eye-on-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/sonos-has-a-new-ceo-with-an-eye-on-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonos has a new CEO with an eye on integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/27131149\/mwelch_160711_1135_0025.0.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe know that life at home requires the support of a variety of services,\u201d [Patrick] Spence writes. And rather than partner with a single company, he says Sonos will work with everybody just like it did with music streaming apps: \u201cWe are going to do the same with voice services, bringing all the services that matter to every home.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article focuses heavily on the fact Sonos doesn&#8217;t have a digital assistant built into its speakers but I think that&#8217;s only half the issue. Their hardware is seriously dragging its feet at this point.\u00a0No 7.1 support, not a word on a new Playbar with Dolby Atmos and a still cumbersome UX.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait for their Alexa control integration but they have a long way to go to be innovators in the field again. Here&#8217;s hoping Spence can get them there!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/1\/20\/14331942\/sonos-ceo-letter-speakers-alexa-google-siri-patrick-spence\">Sonos\u2019 new CEO wants its speakers to work with Alexa, Google, and \u2018all the services that matter\u2019 &#8211; The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe know that life at home requires the support of a variety of services,\u201d [Patrick] Spence writes. And&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}