Spence will receive a cash severance of $1,875,000, per SEC filings. He will also get $7,500 per month and serve as a Sonos board advisor until June, and his unvested shares will vest.
If I was this bad at my job, I’d be shitcanned with no compensation. It’s pretty cool how we reward failure at the highest levels.
I’m so confused by some of the stuff in this thread. I still use my sonos stuff and never even noticed the update beyond seeing that the UI changed a little at some point. I know people had some issues but I never stopped being able to do what I wanted with my beam, sub and a couple of satellite speakers in other rooms.
I use streaming services for music when i’m not using it for the TV too. I usually use the streaming apps themselves rather than the sonos app to do anything. I have set some custom EQ stuff with their app, but that’s understandable.
I don’t think they are anything special and they are very expensive things for what they do, but my problems are very few and far between. Every now and then my beam doesn’t get commands from HDMI via my TV… and the TV is always the issue (it’s old.) That’s really it. I’m not in love with the stuff and when it’s time to replace it i’ll look at what else is out there, but I don’t hate it either.
I believe many folks were using the other features that go beyond streaming… E g. Setting up alarms, streaming music from their locally hosted servers, etc. I believe all that went away with the new app. I never noticed any issues personally, since I just steam/cast.
Same, I’ve been happy with my two play 1s for over a decade. But my secret is not updating, and not using the app (neither phone nor windows), I use Home Assistant (Python) and Noson. My other secret is not adding more Sonos speakers, because I believe you need to use the official phone app for grouping or updates.
Same
The main thing I noticed that the “advanced” stuff disappeared, I can’t debug what signal my Arc is receiving any more.
On the other hand I’m not going to buy any more Sonos stuff either and if I find a valid replacement (Atmos, wireless, minimal app involvement) I’ll switch.