Amazon Echo

It has been over a year that I have had a Amazon Echo and was inquiring about Sonos joining in with voice automation with the echo. Nothing a year later!!!!! If Sonos is pushing back from the unified effort that all other devices have yielded to just to establish a feature to sell I will throw all Sonos products out the back door. I'm sure this will get deleted from the feed. Sonos has had plenty of time to deliver this feature to the already loyal customers.

Even a relatively cursory glance through the forum, Sonos blogs and relevant technical press from the last 8 months would inform you of 1) Sonos' current development focus and 2) The current status of Alexa voice control

But in the meantime do be assured that your Sonos system still plays all your music brilliantly and this is not going to change with voice control.

Gee, if Sonos had known that you personally had an Echo for a year, I'm sure that would have lit a fire under them. Nothing drives software development like an unknown, anecdotal purchase from an anonymous user. Good thing you didn't just buy it last month; the voice control project would be behind the 8-Ball right now! :8

That is really funny sarcasm, it really is. But, MemphisBill has a great point. SONOS has to pick it up to play at the next level. I doubt MacFarlane stepped down to play more golf. Changing CEOs is a sign to everyone in the company to pick it up. If the top guy can be replaced, so can you.

I'm not even that sure what Memphis bill is saying.

Hmmm, he is saying that SONOS is slow in getting Alexa integration out to the public. He is speculating that perhaps they are slow to act because they believe that the SONOS brand/product can exist independent of moves made by giant companies like Amazon and Google. He is also implying that he has a back door to his home.

Alexa doesn't control my refrigerator a year after I heard of echo either. I'm going back to using ice.

...moving on from sarcasm. The level of integration Sonos is talking about with Alexa requires complete integration with Alexa. The timeframe to roll out is just as much dependent on the big guy amazon development as Sonos. They are doing it together. This isn't some slapped on halfway Alexa skill as others do.

Every time Sonos does something new, there's at least one whiner who comes in and complains about it being too late because it wasn't done yesterday, and then claim they are tossing their Sonos to the street (which they never do). Fact is, the only voice control multi-room music system that beat Sonos to market is Google, and they made their own. The OP is talking nonsense.

OP has a point. Sonos needs to move faster (IMO).