But nobody’s buying Sonos gear to get a dumb speaker. If they’re dropping Sonos money on those products, they’re buying into an ecosystem with capabilities that

But nobody’s buying Sonos gear to get a dumb speaker. If they’re dropping Sonos money on those products, they’re buying into an ecosystem with capabilities that are a function of tightly coupled software and hardware. A whole lot like Apple, now that I think about it. If that’s not an interesting value proposition to a hypothetical consumer, then it makes no sense for him or her to buy Sonos. But to say that something that doesn’t affect people who haven’t bought into the ecosystem means that Sonos is the real bad guy here seems like a whataboutist argument.