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Sonos is pivoting its strategy from a speaker manufacturer to an "audio operating system" by integrating generative AI features like agentic automation and mood-based music requests into its new S2 app. However, this shift comes with significant caveats for the tech community, as legacy hardware running on the older S1 platform will be excluded from these updates, effectively creating a two-tier ecosystem. Furthermore, following a period of severe app instability in 2024 that alienated users and damaged accessibility features, Sonos is attempting to rebuild trust through a customer-centric redesign rather than relying solely on AI hype.

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Sonos Ace Ultra, Beam Ultra, Sonos Fabric, and a New App: Everything Sonos Just Announced

WiredSeptember 1, 20266 min read

Sonos is cramming AI into its software because it’s “very hot these days.” The new features, which include agentic automation, are opt-in.

Sonos has a new app. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The smart speaker company, long a darling of the audio industry, undid much of the goodwill it earned with its multiroom speakers through a bevy of software updates that broke its app in 2024. Almost all app users hated it, citing the loss of features like volume control and accessibility tools meant to help blind people use the wireless speaker system. Sonos eventually owned up to the mistake, considered bringing back the old app again, then booted its CEO and marched its new leaders out to apologize profusely to win back the company’s furious customers. Now, Sonos says…

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