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DAalseth said:

I fail to see where waving my hand at a lamp to hope and get it to understand where I want it to point is better than just grabbing it and pointing it. 

Hey, I'm with you on this one. I am pretty decidedly anti-gimmick and I really do not like the idea of needing to have an annoying interaction with an object like a lamp to do what I want. 

robin huber said:

I, for one, am not sad it was scrapped. The days of boom boxes on shoulders blasting everyone’s ears are long gone and should stay that way. It’s bad enough people speak loudly on speakerphone. Don’t want to hear their playlist too. 

Aw, c'mon. Don't you love it when you walk through the gym locker room and you see someone making a FaceTime call (an actual situation that I've experienced about four times in the last year at this point.)

jonro said:

It's potentially a good idea, depending upon the sound quality. I would use it for travel, in hotel rooms, for example. But, I already have a Sonos Roam for that purpose, so I wouldn't be in the market for a speaker like this unless the sound quality were at least as good as the Roam. Also, as Apple4thewin noted, it needs a kickstand or else the speaker is going to be pointed at the ceiling.

See, that's my thing, right? Sonos makes solid products and a snap-on speaker feels a bit gimmicky. I suspect that the sound quality would have been nowhere near the quality of the Roam. And I guarantee you that the speaker would have functioned as a kickstand by way of thickness (most other snap-on speakers do this alreadyh) or had a pop-out kickstand option.

I dunno. Maybe it's cause I'm an old lady, or maybe it's because I don't want to store niche use items, but it certainly wouldn't be for me. Feels kinda like a stocking stuffer idea for the 15-19 range. I can tell you that it would have probably been pretty nice when I lived in a loft apartment and my bedroom lacked any good sound options. Barring that, though...

apple4thewin said:

Edit: The Scosche one linked in the article is somewhat similar to what I was thinking of. As a company I personally haven’t heard of, I don’t know about its quality.

Scosche makes pretty okay stuff, it's about what you'd expect. I anticipate that Sonos' scrapped product would have also functioned as a kickstand. I think they probably had intentions of marketing it toward people who obsessively scroll short-form video (think TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram/Facebook Reels) but then realized that people tend to do this when they're killing time in public, not solely when they're sitting at home.

I'm sure there's people who would have snagged it. Or something like it. Sonos doesn't make cheap products, and I feel like the target audience of 15-21 year olds (Again, I am just assuming this) would probably be reticent (or fully unable) to drop $75-$110 on a magnetic bluetooth speaker, and the 22 and up crowd would probably go for one of their other products for home use. 

M68000 said:

Or you can do what I’m going to do.  Use antenna and your TV tuner which will give you fantastic live TV broadcast that can rival many of these other options.  Assuming you live in the US of course.

I'm team antenna, too, but I feel like nobody has them anymore, which feels pretty silly to me. I live pretty close (within 4 miles or so) to all of my area's major broadcasters, so I don't have any issues with getting a signal, though.