{"id":46443,"date":"2025-01-15T11:36:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46443"},"modified":"2025-01-15T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:36:37","slug":"tony-fadell-wanted-apple-to-buy-sonos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/15\/tony-fadell-wanted-apple-to-buy-sonos\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Fadell Wanted Apple to Buy Sonos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2025\/01\/14\/wingfield-sonos\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2025\/01\/14\/wingfield-sonos\">\n<p>I asked Tony Fadell and he confirmed to me it was him, saying it was back in the very earliest days of Sonos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonos.com\/en-us\/how-it-started\">when Sonos was set to debut<\/a> with a device featuring an obviously iPod-like scroll wheel for input. Jobs wanted to sue (of course). But Fadell, after meeting with the founders, wanted to buy them, and made his case to Jobs, to no avail, several times circa 2003. Fadell said his pitch was basically &ldquo;Seriously, we are all about music. Customers want this. I want this.&rdquo; And Jobs&rsquo;s response was, according to Fadell, &ldquo;No one wants what they are selling.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, Apple is <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marioguzman\/113829517951217636\">no<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marioguzman\/113829524046971389\">longer<\/a> all about music.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/04\/playing-purchased-music-on-homepod\/\">Playing Purchased Music on HomePod<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/26\/sonos-apologizes-for-app-redesign\/\">Sonos Apologizes for App Redesign<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/28\/giving-up-on-siri-and-homepod\/\">Giving Up on Siri and HomePod<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/03\/carplay-in-the-age-of-large-screens\/\">CarPlay in the Age of Large Screens<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/10\/music-to-no-ones-ears\/\">Music to No One&rsquo;s Ears<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: I asked Tony Fadell and he confirmed to me it was him, saying it was back in the very earliest days of Sonos, when Sonos was set to debut with a device featuring an obviously iPod-like scroll wheel for input. Jobs wanted to sue (of course). But Fadell, after meeting with the founders, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-01-15T16:36:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"d9a6cae7-2b67-4797-a9d3-51188cc59d75","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-01-15T16:36:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2abK5ytnR5ep01EYjMWddQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,101,295,157,1630,173,1535],"class_list":["post-46443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-business","tag-history","tag-music","tag-sonos","tag-stevejobs","tag-tony-fadell"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46444,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46443\/revisions\/46444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}