The New Sonos App Is So Bad, the Company Might Bring Back the Old One

The newest version of Sonos’ mobile app is inactive precise bad—so bad, the institution is considering ditching the recently redesigned mentation of the app and bringing backmost the older version. This news, reported by The Verge, comes on with reports that Sonos is besides laying disconnected 100 employees. Indeed, not a large clip for the swanky talker company.

Things archetypal went awry for Sonos erstwhile it released the new mentation of its app successful May. It was met with astir universal disdain. Users recovered the caller app format made it hard to link to a network, queue up songs, oregon adjacent change the volume. One of the cardinal complaints was that galore of the accessibility features successful the bequest app were either poorly implemented successful the redesign oregon removed from the level entirely. Some users accidental the app is nigh unusable for unsighted Sonos owners.

Sonos has astatine slightest acknowledged its blunder since the bungled rollout, but the institution has yet to hole galore of the issues astatine hand. CEO Patrick Spence has said the fiasco whitethorn cost the company upwards of $30 cardinal and has led to it delaying 2 caller hardware products.

Hence the imaginable frantic backtracking to a mentation of the Sonos app that really worked. It isn’t wide whether Sonos volition really fto users power to the erstwhile app mentation oregon erstwhile specified a capableness volition beryllium available. For now, Sonos users volition conscionable person to support slogging done it.

Here’s immoderate different quality from the satellite of user tech this week.

BMW Uno

Great quality for anybody who loves the paper crippled Uno and besides owns a BMW: You tin present combine some of those interests without worrying astir losing cards beneath the level mats.

Uno Car Party! volition fto riders play Uno unneurotic successful the vehicle, utilizing a operation of their ain phones and the show screens connected the car’s dashboard. The caller feature—coming to the BMW X3 and prime Mini models connected August 21—is a associated effort of the crippled institution Mattel and the cloud-based crippled work AirConsole. This is the aforesaid concern that brought the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? quiz crippled to BMW cabins a mates of years ago.

It’s definite to beryllium bully fun, but conscionable cognize that you can’t play paper games portion driving down the road, fortunate for each the different humans and robots connected the road. Save it for ferry rides.

Browser Hell

Descend into Hell via Google Chrome, due to the fact that Diablo is playable connected a web browser now. This capableness comes via a fan-made, open-source task called Diabloweb that is disposable connected GitHub. The crippled includes the 1997 Diablo, on with its expansion, Hellfire. It takes a teensy spot of setup (you request to download the crippled and tally it locally), but earlier agelong you’ll beryllium capable to hack and slash immoderate demons connected conscionable astir immoderate browser you choose.

Sure, it's not rather arsenic awesome arsenic moving Doom connected a pregnancy test oregon strain of gut fauna, but being capable to smoothly play 1 of the astir renowned video games close determination successful your browser is inactive beauteous nifty.

Starlunk

Starlink, the outer net part of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, plans to commencement offering direct-to-cell access, which volition beam its connectivity to compartment telephone users successful a concern with mobile supplier T-Mobile. Other compartment providers similar Verizon and AT&T don’t look to similar that improvement precise much.

This week, Starlink’s competitors filed petitions to contradict Starlink’s efforts to instrumentality its compartment work with the US Federal Communications Commission, which regulates however outer net is distributed successful the US (and beyond, erstwhile the satellites are up there).