Sonos cancels Apple TV 4K competitor, per report

Last month, The Verge reported that Sonos was hard at work on a major new hardware product: a streaming box that would compete with the Apple TV 4K and cost up to $400. Now, it seems, Sonos has changed its plans and canceled its TV streaming product. Sonos TV streaming box is no longer happening Chris Welch writes at The Verge: Sonos has abandoned plans to release a streaming video player, the company’s leadership announced in an all-hands call today. The product, codenamed Pinewood, was set to be Sonos’ next major hardware launch. It was already deep into development and has spent months in beta testing. But now the team behind it will be reassigned to other projects as interim CEO Tom Conrad reprioritizes the company’s future roadmap and continues what he hopes will be a turnaround from a bruising 2024. This is just the latest in a string of major issues Sonos has grappled with over the past year. It all started with a big app redesign that frustrated users, and set off a year o ... Read full article.