From PC Mag: Sonos has dropped its plans to launch a high-end media-streaming device and will instead focus on fixing its butchered mobile app, The Verge reports.
Rumors about Sonos' Pinewood streaming player surfaced last month. The device was supposed to offer content from Netflix, Max, and Disney+ through a single, unified, Android-based interface and cost anywhere around $200 to $400.
The project was deep into development; employees had spent months in beta testing. However, at a Wednesday all-hands meeting, interim CEO Tom Conard announced that Sonos had pulled the plug—on the player and the company's foray into video—"for now," The Verge says.
Employees were hoping Pinewood could challenge Roku, Amazon, Apple, and Google in the streaming device category. The team will now be reassigned to other projects.
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