Sonos Is Giving Its App a Heavy Dose of AI
THE SO WHAT
Sonos baking a more natural voice assistant into its app is another step toward every consumer device vendor owning a thin, branded assistant layer. If you build media or smart-home integrations, plan for fragmented voice surfaces — not just the big OS assistants — and prioritize where your users actually control playback.
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