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They can also choose between one of the two leading voice assistants, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google Assistant.

Sonos customers can choose audio content to play on our systems from more than 100 streaming services, such as Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Google’s YouTube Music. Our success is based in significant part on elevating the idea of an open platform facilitating consumer choice rather than a walled-garden experience. However, that’s not to say Sonos didn’t share some concerns about how Apple handles its Siri and HomeKit business.Īt the outset, Sonos chief legal officer Eddie Lazarus shared platform openness as key to its success vs. With Apple not being a central part of this hearing, it didn’t send a representative. Today’s hearing titled “Protecting Competition and Innovation in Home Technologies” includes Sonos sharing its concerns along with Amazon and Google presenting their cases. We last saw Tile, Spotify, and more testify to the US Congressional Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights in a hearing back in April. Many of the company’s antitrust concerns revolve around Google and Amazon, but Sonos’ chief legal officer also called out its issues with Apple in his testimony.

The latest big tech antitrust hearing is being held by US lawmakers today and Sonos is the main party testifying.