Sonos CEO says the old app can’t be re-released

If you privation the aged Sonos app back, it’s not coming. In a Reddit AMA effect posted Tuesday, Sonos CEO Spence says that helium was hopeful “until precise recently” that the institution could re-release the app, confirming a study from The Verge that the institution was considering doing so. But aft investigating that option, re-releasing the aged app would seemingly marque things worse, Spence says.

Since the caller app was released connected May 7th, Spence has issued a formal apology and announced successful August that the institution would beryllium delaying the motorboat of 2 products “until our app acquisition meets the level of prime that we, our customers, and our partners expect from Sonos.”

Here’s Spence’s mentation arsenic to wherefore it can’t bring backmost the aged app:

In the AMA, Spence besides discussed things similar two-factor authentication (“a possibility”). The app “remains my #1 priority,” Spence says, but helium promises that he’s going to “pop backmost connected Reddit immoderate nights and weekends to prosecute connected the astir upvoted questions.”