The new app sucks, but that's been true for quite some time.
I have a bunch of older Sonos stuff that's still runs their old 'S1' app. It works perfectly. When I need to add a zone I buy old hardware on eBay that is still S1 compatible.
What this article doesn't mention but should, is the newer versions of the new app have a much less robust privacy policy and even more stuff is being done through their cloud. It's not necessary, it doesn't help user experience, it just gives more data to harvest, and it's not what consumers want.
It's good that they are trying to right the ship. But this article nails it on the head, whatever they are doing now is way too late. Management that's not asleep at the switch would have seen these problems before the app even launched and slammed on the brakes lest they destroy their company to get a pair of headphones out the door.
And that's exactly what they did. The trust of users is broken, that's not easily repaired. They shipped their headphones but nobody gave a shit because the app made people want to get rid of Sonos entirely.
It's too bad Logitech discontinued the Squeezebox line. At the time that was the biggest competitor to Sonos, they could be cleaning up right now.
Yes exactly. Hosts got greedy, Airbnb let them, and this is the result.
They could fix it pretty easily but the host would hate it.
Make the price that is displayed by default inclusive of all fees and charges, except taxes. So that stupid cleaning fee makes your property go down in the list.
-Make the listing page clearly indicate whether or not the guest is required to perform chores. Make the filter aware of certain chores and allow a guest to screen out listings that require those. IE, 'strip bed', 'do laundry', 'take out garbage', 'cleaning tasks', 'other', etc. and have a really easy button at the top 'filter out listings with chores'.
If I'm paying half the price of a hotel then I don't mind having to throw the sheets in the laundry.
If I'm paying more than a hotel plus a cleaning fee, I want to be on vacation and act like it.
They won't. I think that's why this is happening on a Saturday- stock markets are closed so it won't instantly tank Boeing's stock price.
Look back at the last few space disasters that killed people- Challenger and Columbia. In both cases it was the same- someone in NASA tried to sound the alarm but they didn't listen because of organizational culture or whatever. Thus the people at the top of NASA could say with a straight face 'we didn't know, we will change culture to listen to the little guy who thinks there's a problem'. And so, we all forgave them for making us watch heroes die on live TV.
This is different. The alarm has been sounded and it's been sounding for months. Everyone at all levels of NASA, Boeing, and for that matter the general public know that Starliner has a very serious thruster problem. There's no excuses here, no 'promise to fix culture' or new procedure that could forgive an accident. If Butch and Suni blow up on live TV there'll be no excuses anyone for anyone to make because the decision is being made with everyone fully informed. The public at large will know it happened because NASA trusted 'don't bolt the doors on Boeing' with the lives of American heroes. The American people will demand that heads roll at both NASA and Boeing and it may well happen too. We don't like watching real heroes die on live TV.
So look at Starliner right now. The thrusters have problems that make them overheat and shut off when commanded to fire and, as of when I last checked, Boeing isn't even sure what's wrong.
Point is- if Starliner crashes with Americans on board, NASA won't just be burning credibility. They'll be burning themselves, Boeing, and the entire manned space program.
So I predict the flight readiness review before the press conference is just a formality, that the decision has already been made to bring our people back on Crew Dragon. And I'm sure someone from Boeing will be all thumbs up over an 'overabundance of caution'.
This battle was lost before it started.
Sad thing is, if they weren't so goddamn obnoxious with the ads it wouldn't even need to be a battle. As it stands, YouTube without ad blocker is damn near unwatchable.
Aluminum is really a perfect packaging material. Relatively cheap, easy to form through a number of methods, durable, and the recycling tech is damn near perfect. Something like 70% of all the aluminum humans have ever made is still in circulation because of that recycling.
Glass comes in a close second.
Neither are quite as easy or cheap as plastic though. And thus in pursuit of the almighty dollar, we poison the planet even further.
This is exactly it for me. A problem is one thing, a problem can be addressed. But a problem whose core cause is not understood can't be quantified or addressed.
So you have a thruster pack that's overheating and they don't even know why, you have helium that's leaking and they don't even know why, so I ask why is it even a question what to do?
I am among other things a private pilot, I fly little propeller airplanes around for fun. Lots of private pilots do stupid stuff, and some get killed as a result. I'm talking for example pilots who want to get back to their home airport, so they fly over five airports that all sell fuel without landing but then run out of gas and crash half a mile from their home airport.
So there is a saying, before you do anything risky, consider how stupid you will look in the NTSB report if it doesn't work out. And the pilot who intentionally flew below fuel minimums looks pretty damn stupid, destroyed a $100,000 airplane and lost his life so he could save 20 bucks on cheaper gas.
Point is, the same principle applies to all of the recent space disasters. Challenger was obviously not the right decision to launch. Columbia obviously a serious risk that was ignored. And that brings us to Starliner, we have serious fundamental problems that could definitely lead to a loss of ship and crew situation and we don't even understand what is causing those problems.
Now imagine Starliner fails. How stupid will that decision look? Probably even dumber than Columbia or Challenger, because unlike those two disasters we know ahead of time that something is very wrong.
Agree 100%.
And same thing with Israel itself. I didn't like the way they treated Palestine, but that doesn't justify slaughtering teenagers at a music festival. Nothing does. Even if Israel is awful, no civilized person or society should ever condone killing unarmed kids at a concert.
The 'response' has obviously become a war of terror against the Gaza area, which in it's current form is equally unjustified. Makes me sick we (USA) continue to supply weapons for a punishment operation. Especially after it would seem Israel has gotten blood for blood revenge well past the 1000-for-1 level. It's just needless suffering.
But you try to say Israel was justified in SOME kind of armed response and it's like you support Hitler.
I don't blame Hamas for wanting to hurt Israel. I blame them for choosing unarmed kids as their target. There's no justification for that, ever.
Agree 100%.
This is a military junta seizing power by force. They have no legitimacy and their near indiscriminate piracy should rule out any legitimacy. I have no special love for Israel but hating Israel is not an excuse for what they do.
I say send in Seal Team 6 tonight and when their main leadership doesn't wake up tomorrow the world (and Yemen) will be a better place for it.
Or just use canned video of him talking, complete with date/time/location stamp and a QR code to the full video so nobody accuses them of taking things out of context.
Well it's cannibalizing the company. You're absolutely right about Boeing.
HP was another example. Fire all the engineers and R&D types, rush whatever's already in the pipeline into production. You get a couple of fantastic quarters because you have new products without the R&D costs. But then you run out of new products in the pipeline and everything goes to shit because you killed your golden goose.
They are doubling down on that mistake it would seem. Article says most of their losses last month were from their foundry division.
I realize I'm just a random person on the ground, but shit like this really has me shaking my head. For a company like Intel foundry is absolutely essential to their business. If they can't build the chips, build them better, faster, smaller, they can't compete.
It's like if Airbus said they are firing everybody in their airplane division to focus on important things. What the hell, the airplane is the important thing. Same thing with Intel.
At this point I think Google needs Reddit more than Reddit needs Google.
Google search kind of sucks these days. How often do you add site:reddit.com to the end of the query to get any sort of useful result for a specific question? For me it's pretty often.
If Reddit cuts off Google, that goes away and Google search suffers significantly. And that might mean the one thing Google cannot abide- a situation where people in large numbers start actively seeking out other search engines.
Don't get me wrong, they're both being super shitty.
Google needs to quit obsessing over AI and a million different cloud products and fix the one product that people actually care about. Reddit needs to stop acting like they own everybody.
Exactly.
Busybody assholes always end up in charge of HOAs because they're the only ones who bother to vote and go to meetings. HOA starts as a quiet little thing that just prevents the most egregious stuff, and ends up as intrusive because of it.
Unless the majority of your neighborhood is that kind of people, or is buddy buddy with the people who take over, it's real easy to take power back a lot of the time.
The new app sucks, but that's been true for quite some time. I have a bunch of older Sonos stuff that's still runs their old 'S1' app. It works perfectly. When I need to add a zone I buy old hardware on eBay that is still S1 compatible. What this article doesn't mention but should, is the newer versions of the new app have a much less robust privacy policy and even more stuff is being done through their cloud. It's not necessary, it doesn't help user experience, it just gives more data to harvest, and it's not what consumers want.
It's good that they are trying to right the ship. But this article nails it on the head, whatever they are doing now is way too late. Management that's not asleep at the switch would have seen these problems before the app even launched and slammed on the brakes lest they destroy their company to get a pair of headphones out the door. And that's exactly what they did. The trust of users is broken, that's not easily repaired. They shipped their headphones but nobody gave a shit because the app made people want to get rid of Sonos entirely.
It's too bad Logitech discontinued the Squeezebox line. At the time that was the biggest competitor to Sonos, they could be cleaning up right now.