Re:Google doesn't want to pay Sonos for technology it copied
by tssva on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @01:00PM
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When the patent case was originally filed Sonos claimed in their press releases that Google even used the same protocol to talk to their speakers that Sonos does. Insinuating that Google stole the protocol. That was actually part of the lawsuit they filed though. The reason why is because the protocols in question are standard UPnP protocols used by most network media devices.
Re:Google doesn't want to pay Sonos for technology it copied
by jollybean on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @01:21PM
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What part of 'changing the volume on all speakers at once' is 'industrial espionage'?
Back in 2013, while Google was considering how it could make its music streaming service work on Sonos' speakers, the latter company gave the search giant an inside look at its technology. At the time, it didn't seem like a big deal. Google wasn't making speakers, and it wasn't in the smart home business at all. It would be another year before it bought Nest as a way to get into the hardware business. Sonos says that as a result of that inside look, Google "blatantly and knowingly" copied its technology and included it in its own products.