Amazon Alexa Support for Sonos announced!!!!!

@jgatie

>Bwahahahahaha! So they partner up with someone you previously called their competition and you call it "getting left behind"?
>Seems to me if you are in cahoots with the #1 Voice Control system in the world, you aren't getting left behind when it comes to voice control.

You may have a slight misunderstanding of what partnerships mean in a business context.

@jgatie

>Trying to help at what?

"improve our chances to get in on the private beta", which would help the software guys at Sonos make a better product.

R

@jgatie

>Bwahahahahaha! So they partner up with someone you previously called their competition and you call it "getting left behind"?
>Seems to me if you are in cahoots with the #1 Voice Control system in the world, you aren't getting left behind when it comes to voice control.

You may have a slight misunderstanding of what partnerships mean in a business context.

No, I assure you I understand. Sonos is leveraging the #1 Voice Control technology in the world instead of doing it in house. That saves them money, and keeps them in the forefront of a technology which is not their specialty. That is anything besides "left behind".

And by the way, Sonos has been a partner of Amazon AWS division for years and years. I suppose that was another case of the "industry leaving them behind" (except it happened way back when before you think they started being left behind)?

> (except it happened way back when before you think they started being left behind)?

you are hilarious, now you presuppose to know how I think?

:o)

alright, I'm outtie 🙂

@jgatie

>Trying to help at what?

"improve our chances to get in on the private beta", which would help the software guys at Sonos make a better product.

R

Well, I know if I was picking beta candidates, the first guy I pick would the one asking why he should "stick with Sonos while the industry is leaving them behind." He's be the very first in line! :D

I think you might have a "slight misunderstanding" how this beta thing works.

> (except it happened way back when before you think they started being left behind)?

you are hilarious, now you presuppose to know how I think?

:o)

alright, I'm outtie :)

Well, you said Sonos' partnership with Amazon was a signal of them being left behind. I assume that since you said "being" left behind that it is a recent thing. So I pointed out that Sonos has been partnered with Amazon for many years, and they weren't being "left behind" then.

Im ready to test ...Yesterday I purchased the Amazon Echo Dot ...
Pick me , pick me.....

Does anyone know if the Alexa support will extend to the old Connect, Connect Amp and Bridge devises?

Well bridge isn't a player so that wouldn't apply. But it should work same for amp and connect just as stand alone speakers.

Does anyone know if the Alexa support will extend to the old Connect, Connect Amp and Bridge devises?

We don't know how the whole Sonos/Alexa integration is going to work or look.

We would assume that it is very unlikely that Sonos would render any hardware obsolete for those who want to use Alexa as that would be completely contrary to how they operate.