Android Functionality Needed

Actually I’m not anyone’s fanboy. I happen to own an iPad because it is required for a work function not supported on Android. (Unrelated to SONOS) It’s likely to be the only Apple product that I’ll ever own.

Platform exclusivity cuts both ways. There is an Android functionality that I must have for work that is not supported on iOS. For me, Android is about as irksome as iOS.

I basically said the same thing as @buzz.  Does that make me an Apple fanboy too?  Because if it does, I’d be the very first Steve Jobs loathing, iOS hating, won’t have an Apple device in my home, owner of almost every Samsung Galaxy phone and/or tablet made in the last decade+ “Apple fanboy” in the history of the world.  Still doesn’t change the fact that Android microphones are too non-standardized to use for Trueplay, which is why Sonos has begun to incorporate Quick Tune into their newer devices.  Unfortunately, this new Quick Tune technology is not backwards compatible.  

That’s not pro-Apple or anti-Android, that’s just the facts.  Labelling it as some sort of bias is just dumb denial of these facts, and does nothing to satisfy your wishes.  You just get someone or something to (wrongly) blame. 

Please accept my sincere apologies for my apple fanboy comments it  just sounded like your reply was pro apple and related to the fact that sonos products are appleized well to a point, I'm not the most technology minded person and it seems you are and know about android microphones etc, but surely sonos could work with a 3rd party software app developer to have a much more android friendly room correction (Trueplay) Functionality? 

However I do accept that all apple devices are obviously made by apple and therefore much more standardised than android made by different companies, which TBH I hadn't taken into account fully until chatting on here,  so once Please accept my apologies and no offence was meant 

Hi please can you read my reply to buzz as its basically the same reply I would have typed to you as well, many thanks Popmaster109 

Accepted.

Most of the SONOS users that I encounter are Apple users. This is hardly a valid scientific sample, SONOS has the data. Perhaps the dynamic is that iPhone/iPad and SONOS are perceived as premium, upscale products, attractive to the same customer base. Given the unit to unit consistency of iPhones and iPads, I think that SONOS decided that it would be great marketing to add a useful, “free” feature (Trueplay) for the major block of the user base. Apple fans are loving it, Android fans are grumpy and vocal. I have to giggle a bit over a tech friend and Apple hater who had to buy an iPad in order to support his business. He was not so flattering when he learned that I purchased an iPad to support my work. Both of us are willing to use the tool needed to get the job done.

Many thanks for your reply, I do understand that SONOS had to choose apple when they were starting out and at least their waking up to the android users with their latest products era 100 + 300 and I'm sure for ALL future products and massively increase their sales, maybe SONOS could as an extra cost include a apple type device that will operate Identical as an i-phone or i-pad to help maximise their products performance with your own rooms acoustics, So may thanks for expanding my knowledge with regards to android microphone issues, I suppose all android users who have a friend who can let them use their apple product to use Trueplay and maximise their SONOS products performance 😀 

Do all Android devices support an external microphone input? Do they all have the same circuitry and (if needed) analogue-to-digital converter to to the mic input into an environment where software can analyse the data from the Trueplay process? I would think not. 
 

If Sonos were to produce an independent device and market it for, say, $50 how many folk would buy it? It’s effectively a “use once” product. I suspect that the cost to design, develop, test, market and support such a product is unlikely to make good business sense - cost would far outweigh income. 
 

And bundling it with all future products would upset buyers who’d only need one such device and not want to keep paying for extra ones. 

I see your point and your probably right but I do still think a worldwide company like SONOS could if they wanted make in conjunction with a 3rd party software developer an android app that would give nearly as much capability as the one for apple products, I feel  SONOS could and should do it to widen their appeal to android users and yes it would be a financial outlay but I think and feel SONOS would not only recoup that outlay very quickly but massively increase their sales by increasing android functionality within their products, their are more android users than apple users and just because apple i-phones are the most popular mobile phone in the world doesn't mean their the best just because they're popular and I'm not apple bashing but i strongly believe if companies like SONOS would and should include android users the same features and functionality (yes I like that word as it expresses what I'm trying to say) I know it would exponentially increase their sales 

Sonos stock has recently tumbled and as a result, they’ve had to layoff 7% (130) of the their employees.   This is atleast the 3rd time they’ve had to go through a round of layoffs. That’s not a company that is in a position to do almost anything they want.  I don’t think Sonos is in serious danger, but they aren’t a position to take a lot of risks or unjustified costs.   I get that as customers, we are free to make assumptions about the market and how this feature or that will bring in enough sales to justify costs, but Sonos actually has to do the analysis to prove it.  I have little doubt that Sonos has taken serious looks at HDMI passthrough and other features you mentioned over the years and determined it would not be right for the business right now. 

The way I see it,  I need Sonos to continue to stay in business (and not be sold to big tech) for a long time to support my system.  I have some feature requests I’d like to see, but I’d rather Sonos make the smart choices about these and other features.  That said, it’s perfectly understandable for other customers to be completely unconcerned about Sonos well being and just want the features they want right now regardless of whether it makes sense on the other side of the equation.

Buy once with free support and added features forever is a difficult long term business model.