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I wish they would have sued Spotify. Spotify frequently aggressively breaks Sonos for what I assume is anti-competitive reasons.

• jborichevskiy 7y ago
  > Spotify frequently aggressively breaks Sonos for what I assume is anti-competitive reasons. Any insight as to why they would do that? As far as I'm aware Spotify has no interest in selling hardware of their own, and Sonos isn't competing with them on the streaming front.
  • Spivak 7y ago
    No, but they do have an interest in getting their software and protocol into these devices with Spotify Connect. I'm personally really happy with this because the implementation is really slick. They're using their leverage on smart speaker makers to support them rather than the reverse because they can -- and the result from a user perspective is really nice since there's no weird compatibility issues. You either speak the connect protocol or you don't. https://spotify-everywhere.com/ https://spotify-everywhere.com/
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• Spivak 7y ago
  Not really anti-competitive reasons. More of a pissing contest between the two companies who want to use their own protocols. Spotify just wants Sonos to implement their Connect protocol and so their native Sonos integration is pretty half-assed. But implementing connect makes Sonos a 'dumb' speaker so it's obviously unthinkable.