Will it blend?

Having a Sonos system at home with 20 speakers, I'm sticking with the old S1 app and not adding any new speakers that require another app. All the issues that have been reported with the new app is a top of the iceberg of issues that they've created for us customers. Ultimately they want to drive more Sonos speaker sales by only having the newer speakers run with the latest app version.

The Ai fluff in this new app will hardly add the functionality that is truly needed. The most important part is sound quality and app reliability. You don't want a spinning app when wanting to turn down the volume or searching for a song. The new functionality with Ai functions added will not fix the fundamentals, but require the latest speakers that are only compatible with the newer S2 app. This is another marketing gimmick to drive more speaker sales.

” So, for very large images, it may be worth taking the filesize hit with JPEG XL”

XL it is. If the file already is large, make it even larger!

Yeah really, what could possibly go wrong? Nothing right? :-)

The nasty Broadcom behaviour is spreading in the industry. Perpetual licenses are not liberty being honoured.

This is disgusting and should be the grounds of be a class action suit.

Groove Salad is great. Listening to it now and then when in the mood. Still going strong on Soma.fm

This is definatley Larson comic material.

https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6a0cc8...

Best comment in a long time on /.
+1 Funny

This is just marketing BS and no real change. Don't fall for the hype. It a ridiculous amount of pressure for companies to come up with something ground breaking around AI at the moment.

Spot on.

I used to work in telecom and this was basically the reasoning. The so called "Over The Top" big tech companies were seen as raping the telcom operators of their lucrative business and in the end someone had to pay for the brand new infrastructure investments.

+1 couldn't agree more...

The new world player base declines. Then Amazon announces that more resources will be added to the development. Hmm, something isnâ(TM)t right, wonder what.

Because there are more people out there blissfully unaware of ChatGPT than people using it actively. So there is a large market.

Finally some real news for nerds on stuff that actually matters! :-)

Interesting, I actually bought a 64MB MuVu mp3 player back in the day. It was great and had long battery life and a really small form factor.