An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad on the Sonos 27 platform, AI assistants, its Google relationship, speakers as a home computer mesh network, and more
THE SO WHAT
Treating speakers as a distributed home compute and sensor mesh reframes the smart home from “phone plus hubs” to an ambient edge network. If you build consumer services, assume the next control point is not the app but the in-room device graph—voice, context, and local inference stitched across hardware.
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