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Sonos workers shed light on why the app update went so horribly


Meetings with "yelling," "screaming" preceded app's release, Bloomberg reports.

Anonymous employees Bloomberg spoke with claimed that the Sonos app’s technical debt had been building up for 20 years before the update. By the time Sonos decided to update the app in mid-2022, it was dealing with software based on virtually obsolete infrastructure and code languages. This is because the headphones were made to be on-the-go, differing from Sonos' other products, mainly speakers and soundbars relying on home Wi-Fi.

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