Spotify Connect, serious competition

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Maybe that explains why Bluesound devices are so much more expensive than the equivalent Sonos device?

I can't see why this is..

I don't recall the price of Bluesound gear going up after they announced the Spotify connect feature..

Avid Contributor I

wappinghigh often stubbornly refuses to believe that we users are not Sonos employees. He has referred to Sonos as "your system" to me and other posters on more than one occasion.

Are you guys going to be logical here.. or are you going to continue to attack the man rather than approach the issue rationally?

This is now irrelevant.

Sonos wouldn't sell a single Zone player from this day on without these streaming services..

So what? Sonos has a partnership with more services than any other streamer there is. They certainly aren't lacking for music partners.

Are you guys going to be logical here.. or are you going to continue to attack the man rather than approach the issue rationally?

It is hard to approach the issue rationally with someone who believes we are not actually users and continually tells us that we are responsible for Sonos' decisions. There is a degree of irrationality here, but I assure you it isn't coming from us.

^ So Sonos can't afford to do a deal..but NAD can??

You forgot #3:

Spotify protecting their other partners from competition from the leading wireless streamer on the planet.

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^ I was simply pointing out the irrelevance of Mr McFarlanes comment that Sonos didn't receive any revenue from streaming services..

You raised it jg

Not me..

^ I was simply pointing out the irrelevance of Mr McFarlanes comment that Sonos didn't receive any revenue from streaming services..

You raised it jg

Not me..

Dude, you have been here 7 years. Learn to use the quote function!!

And why is this irrelevant? You claim it was Sonos fault Spotify Connect is not supported. I was pointing out that in a monetary sense, it is not Sonos holding out for big bucks in order to support it, because Sonos receives no income from services. So that eliminates one very large way you could place the fault on Sonos.

Avid Contributor I

You forgot #3:

Spotify protecting their other partners from competition from the leading wireless streamer on the planet.

Ok.. I can see maybe they might be doing this..that maybe they are witholding doing a deal with Sonos because they want to offer a heads up on the competitors.. but this now means they (Spotify) have some serious traction here..does it not?

Ok.. I can see maybe they might be doing this..that maybe they are witholding doing a deal with Sonos because they want to offer a heads up on the competitors.. but this now means they (Spotify) have some serious traction here..does it not?

Spotify will have serious traction the day they turn a profit. Until then, they are just another music service living on borrowed time. Back room deals are just more evidence of this fact.