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Sonos CEO behind disastrous app exits with $1.9 million severance (arstechnica.com)
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Spence will receive a cash severance of $1,875,000, per SEC filings. He will also get $7,500 per month and serve as a Sonos board advisor until June, and his unvested shares will vest.

If I was this bad at my job, I'd be shitcanned with no compensation. It's pretty cool how we reward failure at the highest levels.

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[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I’ve had my Sonos sound bar controlled by HomeKit since the day I bought it and have never needed to fuck with their app.

I guess I got lucky?

[-] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Sadly you still need that POS to intially configure it and the occasional update.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

No I didn’t actually.

I’ve never bothered with the app.

I just use airplay and let HomeKit handle it and have had absolutely 0 issues with it.

My appleTV discovered it and provided it to HomeKit and I was done.

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