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dtohmatsu
Enthusiast I
May 20, 2024

Fire Your Product Management Team

  • May 20, 2024
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I’ve been a Sonos user for over 19 years.

I’ve been a Product Manager for over 15 years (manage a team of 75 people.)

The new app is unimaginably bad.

Honestly the only way to fix this is to fire your product management team.

 

 

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    castalla
    Local Superstar
    May 20, 2024

    Then what? ⁉️⁉️😁

    It's the courageous bee's knees - all 6 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝. - - - - - Make Sonos Great Again - - - - -
    Kumar
    May 20, 2024

    If anyone is to be fired, it is the CEO, for letting this happen, and not for the first time, on his watch. 

      dtohmatsuAuthor
      Enthusiast I
      May 20, 2024

      Then what? ⁉️⁉️😁

       

      Mmm… let me see…. oh how about hire new product managers.

        castalla
        Local Superstar
        May 20, 2024

        Then what? ⁉️⁉️😁

         

        Mmm… let me see…. oh how about hire new product managers.

        Well, that'll sort it, then.  They going to Duke it out with the corporate Suits? 🥊🥊

        It's the courageous bee's knees - all 6 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝. - - - - - Make Sonos Great Again - - - - -
        IvPo
        Enthusiast II
        May 21, 2024

        Don't worry. With Sonos stock price dropping and the brand damaged, some big tech company (let's say Google) will buy Sonos on the cheap. CEO will be relieved of his duties and most of the staff will be made redundant.

        The app will be reintroduced again, because with a current score of 1.6 in the Play store, it's really the only way to scrub the history.

        Alternatively, Google will sell off Sonos after obtaining all the patents.

          Audiophone
          Renowned Enthusiast I
          May 21, 2024

          Musk will buy sonos, add some polished steel,  rockets and batteries. And he will fire everybody. Then you will have an app with extended range for traveling to Mars 

          Keep it simple
            dtohmatsuAuthor
            Enthusiast I
            May 23, 2024

            Musk will buy sonos, add some polished steel,  rockets and batteries. And he will fire everybody. Then you will have an app with extended range for traveling to Mars 

            And make it re-usable even after a software upgrade.

            Gaham
            Headliner I
            May 23, 2024

            Having been forced to use the new app since 7th May I am now begrudgingly ready to admit that the UI is actually not that bad but it is let down by:

            • The missing functions
            • The sluggish performance
            • All of the bugs

            I do wonder what they will do in the UI longer term for:

            • Alarms as these would be better if they were accessible from the speaker/room perspective
            • Groups as these are logically “super” rooms

            I’m sure that they have a plan but it does feel like they have not fully mapped the functions users need to the UI. Hope that I am proven wrong as the alternative is another disruptive UI change.

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