Ultimate Ears just came out with their new MegaBlast its a Portable Wift/Bluetooth speaker with alexa and has a Power Doc accessory for use when inside. 16 hour battery life. The wifi lets the device stream with out your phone and lets you use alexa to request songs, pause, play forward etc.. When your done using it in your back yard you bring it in and plop it on the doc where it charges and can be used as one of your indoor speakers. This is what Sono's should have added to the Play One (or they should make a new one for $299 called Play one portable)
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That makes no sense. Regardless of what Sonos does with leadership, they still have all the data, that you don't have, to make the wise decision.
Wait, I take it back, we do have the data to make the right decision. Amazon echo's are running away with the market on wfii speakers. Not the Tap, but the Dot and main echo. Voice Control is clearly the feature that's brining in sales. Amazon realized a bunch of new echo products...none of them portable. Google did the same, none portable. The Apple hopepod...not portable. They are all wrong on this?
Wait, I take it back, we do have the data to make the right decision. Amazon echo's are running away with the market on wfii speakers. Not the Tap, but the Dot and main echo. Voice Control is clearly the feature that's brining in sales. Amazon realized a bunch of new echo products...none of them portable. Google did the same, none portable. The Apple hopepod...not portable. They are all wrong on this?
Considering they all JUST got into the speaker business, when sonos has been doing speakers since 2009 and is now getting its lunch eaten, they might want to start thinking about expanding their market. I'm sure the multi billion dollar logitech corporation sat around the table and said how can we lose millions of dollars? Oh lets make a great sounding portal speaker with wifi/bluetooth/alexa and docking puck that no one will want! Brilliant!
Every maker approaches the objective from a different point of view, derived from target markets. Sometimes, these points of view converge and there are some winners and some losers. It is as easy to pick these after the event as it is to second guess strategies developed and deployed without the benefit of that hindsight.
Clearly the winner will be the voice enabled good sounding speaker that can stay on all the time via mains power, do multiroom via the ability to work in tandem with others, work wirelessly without WiFi, be weatherproof when taken out of doors minus the mains power and play all the music in the world.
Who wants to be lay good money on which make will get there first?
Clearly the winner will be the voice enabled good sounding speaker that can stay on all the time via mains power, do multiroom via the ability to work in tandem with others, work wirelessly without WiFi, be weatherproof when taken out of doors minus the mains power and play all the music in the world.
Who wants to be lay good money on which make will get there first?
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