Summary
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Sonos brings Hugo Barra to his board of directors while the longtime director Mike Volpi is going down.
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Barra brings a richness of experience from Google, Xiaomi and Meta.
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This could point out a change for the company because it comes back to create exceptional audio products.
Sonos had a difficult year, with executive reshuffles, failed video players and a disastrous deployment of the application.
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However, this can run things up to the highest level.
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THE Announced company He brought the former Android manager Hugo Barra when the director of the longtime board of directors Mike Volpi went down. This marks Barra’s return to consumer technology after having disappeared for a few years in the world of AI and biotechnology.
Barra provides profound consumption technology experience to the board of directors
Barra has an impressive CV full of experience in hardware and software at Google, Xiaomi and Meta. He is currently responsible for the product in an AI startup.
He played a decisive role in the development of Android in his early years, because he directed product management in Google until 2013. He jumped to Xiaomi that year to supervise the global expansion of the Chinese smartphone giant. From there, he moved to Meta at the end of 2017 to direct Oculus VR, having a huge impact on the development of the Oculus Quest helmet. He then launched his own biotechnological and IA startup.
Sonos, meanwhile, has known a few difficult years. He was confronted with a storm of criticism last year concerning an application overhaul which ended with the resignation of the CEO of the company. When he abandoned his planned streaming box, Pinewood appointed, people began to abandon the business. To be fair, Pinewood would have entered a market already saturated with
Android streaming boxes
But the decision left a bad taste in the mouths of Sonos fans.
A setback to the forces of Sonos
Mike Volpi sat on the Sonos board of directors for 15 years and played a decisive role in bringing the startup company to the public brand. His departure for personal reasons opened the door to bring Barra on board. The company will most likely fall back to its forces as an exceptional audio creator.
Given the history of Barra, we will probably see the future products of infused sonos of artificial intelligence. We could even see Audio Sonos technology joins virtual reality. The thought of a
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-Con the Samsung helmet with a soundtrack sound from Sonos filling rooms fills us with excitement. Even if it is not one thing, at least it seems that Sonos can finally come back to what it does best.
