Sonos Layoffs Raise Concerns
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•Sonos is failing and millions of devices could go with it - why open-source audio is our only hope
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Sonos announced the layoff of 100 employees, raising serious concerns about the company's future.
The company has an estimated 15.3 million households in its collective user base, but its sales have slowed considerably since 2020 .
The industry needs to shift toward an open-source streaming audio and wireless multiroom hi-fi operating system.
An open-source audio OS could be a foundational system for networked home audio devices.
Android provides a perfect model for what an open source audio platform could achieve.
Sonos already uses Linux kernels, audio processing libraries like alsa-lib and ffmpeg, and essential system utilities like busybox and dbus.
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