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Sonos is preparing the next jump to Smart TVs with a new OS

Sonos is a company that simply by naming it, already puts in our heads the idea that let’s talk about quality audio and the experience of a first level sound. However, the company from Santa Barbara, California, and founded 20 years ago, seems to want to go a little further by adding new “home theater” experiences to its future catalogue. And what does that mean?

a new job

The time does not seem close when Sonos forgets to launch products exclusively associated with audio, but certain springs are moving within the company that looking to expand those horizons And, surely, the fastest and clearest path is to have your own home theater operating system, as has been known by a new job that they are offering on LinkedIn in recent weeks.

In it, they come to request the incorporation of a person who would perform the position of “Head of associations, home theater” that would be in charge of leading a new leg where television transmission and a user interface would allow North Americans to develop new types of products closely related to those they already have in stores.

Sonos Beam 2

According to some media, Sonos’ own director of innovation, Nick Millington, would have been responsible for promoting this new position by having published messages on LinkedIn itself that do not leave too many doubts: «I’m working on a new home theater project and I am looking for an associate executive to help” in its development. And as if that were not enough, the offer of another position has also appeared that the company defines as «UX Leader, next generation home theater experience».

A jump to Smart TV?

Surely Sonos is interested in this development because of its potential as a standard to offer to future manufacturers, who could add a new OS to their televisions in the same way that Roku (especially in the US) appears inside models of different brands. . Sonos, with this movement, would be precisely creating those foundations as one more alternative to gain market share And who knows if, over the years, transform this new operating system into a standard similar to Android. Although the market is saturated.

After all, as they recognize in the job offer itself, nowadays “content takes many forms and it comes from many different sources”, so they have been given the task of “anticipating how this complex landscape is reconciled to meet the needs of users”. In short, how to take the step to conquer, not only your own music equipment, but also the operating systems of the Smart TVs of the coming times.

It should be remembered that brands such as Roku already incorporate TV streaming experiences into some of their sound bar models, so as a first step Americans would like to repeat the same steps with the sights set on future innovations that entail the development of some hitherto unpublished products in the company’s portfolio.

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