Thanks for that: am interested in what the Era models will be like. While on the subject of Sonos: I was wondering recently whether there are any other brands who have speakers which one can speak to and get the information about the battery spoken back. When I discovered I had access to Sonos Voice I quickly got it set up and was blown away by the fact that I could do that. To my mind, that makes them eminently accessible. There are other bluetooth speakers and headphones on which one can press a button and get that information but this is the first time I’ve seen anything quite like what I can do with my Roam and Move.
All the best Angie > On 9 Feb 2023, at 17:52, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here the other article from The Verge: > > Sonos CEO says Amazon, Google aren’t "doing anything interesting" in audio > And he doesn’t sound particularly impressed by Apple’s second-generation > HomePod, either. > By CHRIS WELCH/ Feb 8, 2023, 3:53 PM PST > > During Sonos’ Q1 2023 earnings call, CEO Patrick Spence expressed the usual > optimism about his company’s financial performance, sales momentum, and > upcoming product roadmap. This man really loves the word “flywheel,” folks. > But he also took clear jabs at Big Tech competitors, including Amazon, > Google, and Apple, for barely putting up a fight in recent months. With > Amazon rumored to be taking a hard look at its ambitions surrounding Alexa > and Echo products and Google largely focused on all things Pixel, Spence said > that Sonos faced no serious competition during the crucial holiday quarter. > “We’ve gone through fiscal Q1, which is the height of the consumer > electronics and audio season and we’ve seen some of the traditional players > go heavy discounting and, kind of like a traditional playbook for consumer > electronics that we’ve always fought against and don’t really believe in,” he > said. “And then, the big tech players, we just haven’t seen them active and > we haven’t seen them doing anything interesting.” > Neither of Sonos’ primary smart speaker rivals launched any new audio > hardware during the holiday quarter. And Apple’s second-generation HomePod > arrived after it had already ended. But Sonos doesn’t seem all that impressed > with or concerned about Apple’s resurrected $299 device. “We never want to > get overconfident in these things, but you know, even seeing what’s emerged > recently, from Apple, I could not be more excited or confident about the > product roadmap we have and our ability to take more and more of that $96 > billion global audio market,” Spence said. > Google’s most recent home audio product is the aging Nest Audio, and Amazon’s > fall 2022 hardware event went light on smart speakers: the company introduced > a refreshed Echo Dot and added a new white color option for the > top-of-the-line Echo Studio. The regular Echo speaker was last refreshed in > 2020. > I just feel like there’s others that are probably questioning their > investments in this area, and we are investing in four new categories. We are > going > to raise the bar in our existing categories. I mean, we’ve got a lot going > on,” Spence added. > Sonos has said it will release a product in the first of those new categories > sometime in 2023. In the nearer term, Sonos will be revitalizing its high-end > home audio lineup with new speakers, including the Era 300 and Era 100. Both > are designed to showcase spatial audio and Dolby Atmos. A second-generation > Sonos Move portable speaker is also under development, The Verge has learned. > Discounts on Sonos products over the holidays helped the company deliver > strong earnings and beat Wall Street expectations for the Q1 fiscal quarter. > This was the first time that Sonos had been able to offer those promotions in > three years; the multi-room audio leader struggled to keep its speakers and > soundbars in stock during the covid pandemic, facing the same supply chain > woes that reverberated across the tech industry But the deals were back this > time — even if some of them just returned Sonos products to their former > pricing. > Either way, the company put greater emphasis on bundles that boost its > percentage of multi-product customer households. The average number of > products for each Sonos household is currently 2.98. 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