Sonos has been dying a slow death every since their founding CEO John MacFarlane left. He probably got pressure from investors to jump right into the "virtual assistant" fad that's also mostly on life-support by the major vendors (Google, Apple, Alexa, Bixby) so the only thing to remain from that will be a couple of million additional devices with a microphone being connected to the internet.<p>Their apps have been slow and inconsistent and all attempt at a rewrite just made it worse.<p>If I hadn't gotten a free Arc as part of a beta test, I'd probably be looking for replacements already but since some Play 1s, a Sub, some Play 3s and the Arc are at least somewhat in a working state, I just try not to worry about it, unless I have to open the app, which just makes me annoyed for a few seconds.<p>Sonos should've stuck with being a little player in the market instead of trying to play catch-up with the big boys. Even their stock is barely holding on to a few bucks more than they IPO'd with.