Sonos hits eject on its video player plans

Sonos has had a pretty rough go of things over the last year. Its app redesign was so hated that we were absolutely floored when, in the company’s response to the backlash, Sonos chief product officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin said the app redesign took “courage.” At least the company decided to look inwards and get back to the basics of what made it such a sought-after brand in the first place… right? Not quite. Sonos thought that an Android-based streaming box would be exactly what people needed to forget its disastrous 2024. In an already stacked world of streaming devices that range from onboard smart TV platforms to the costly-but-great Nvidia Shield TV Pro, where did Sonos executives think their product — codenamed Pinewood — would slot in?