Contributor I

Google Assistant: Actually Coming?

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June 26, 2018
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When the Sonos:One was released, we were told Google Assistant support was coming "in 2018". Now, Sonos Beam's press materials say Google Assistant will come "in the future". Pair that with the suggestion in the media that Google was coerced into the partnership by some kind of legal consideration (https://voicebot.ai/2018/05/18/sonos-patent-portfolio-used-to-persuade-google-to-allow-a-multi-assistant-device/). Sonos team, is this still slated to happen in 2018? Will it be full Google Assistant support, or will it be minimal support due to Google being a reluctant partner? Hoping for the best. Thanks!

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Airgetlam

No data points yet to be able to provide a good answer.

Bruce

jpsulak

Lyricist I

End of the Day, Sonos sold us a product with support for Google Assistant this year so if that statement is not true then Sonos will never get my business again

Most companies nowadays seem to be over promising like this. Tesla overpromises things all the time (such as model 3 production), Apple teased AirPower, AirPods, and iPhone X long before they were available (AirPower still isn’t available after 12 months), and Samsung promised a foldable smartphone/tablet coming “in the future” back in 2014. It’s a fact of life, some may call it lying but it’s really just poor planning

bcaulfield

Contributor I

So, to frame things more positively: Sonos is working on integrating Google Assistant; they plan to be done by the end of the year; they have chosen to disclose this. So are they making a promise? Or just being transparent? Maybe both.

jgatie

Sonos promised Alexa in August 2016. They delivered for the holidays 2017. They have never missed a promised feature, except for the Audible disaster (which was still released, eventually).

Google support will come, more than likely in the same timeline as Alexa; in time for the holidays. No sense getting Underoos in a bunch until then.

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zoziano

Lyricist I

This is the only assistant all these companies should be using, not trying to create their own half-baked fairly useless assistants and putting them in TVs, fridges and washing machines.

Paulw123

Virtuoso

Hopefully it will be the update that kills the dock.........every silver lining needs a cloud 🙂.............and I don't have a dock 😉