Sonos revamps Wi-Fi speaker app, admits: 'We made things worse' Sonos has upgraded its streaming Wi-Fi speaker app to meet customers’ pleas and is indulging in the Blue Note blues for jazz buffs. Sonos Blue Note Play:1 It’s the 75th anniversary of jazz specialist Blue Note Records and Sonos has jumped onto the marketing opportunity offered by that. It’s bringing out a Blue Note radio …
Bougt one lately, but had to return it. Brilliant speaker, except that you can't use it as a speaker.
OK, I should have done my homework, but it hadn't crossed my mind that the simplest functionality of a speaker could be missing. You can only play music (from specific sources), and only through their app. Possible explanations:
1) To enforce other people's copyright. Did I pay for my speaker, or did Sony?
2) They want to collect and monetise my listening habit. Did I pay for that speaker, or did Doubleclick (or whoever the data aggregator is)?
All I wanted was one single speaker, ideally wireless, instead of the cable spaghetti caused by wired subwoofer + 2 speakers that nevertheless stand in the same corner of the office, for Youtube and BBC News.
UK Shoppers being robbed? Not really, I do get tired of these arguments.
US pricing doesn't even include sales tax.
Feel free to buy one, add shipping cost, add import duty to that total price and then add 20% VAT to that total - plus a likely handling charge from the carrier.
It's not vendors that rip the UK off, it's purely our economy. The high rate of VAT alone is crippling retail prices, this is predicted to go up further after the next election to the 23-25% seen around mainland Europe.
UK retailers have to pay UK building costs, cover it with UK insurance, fill it with UK staff, pay UK National Insurance and wages for those staff who want to live in UK housing. They then have to advertise their business at UK rates and ship their product using UK carrier charges.
In many ways, UK pricing isn't actually that bad when all is considered.
"US pricing doesn't even include sales tax."
As of January 1st, 2014, 5 states (Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon) do not levy a sales tax, while California has the highest state tax rate at 7.5%
Whereas the UK its 20%
"Feel free to buy one, add shipping cost, add import duty to that total price and then add 20% VAT to that total - plus a likely handling charge from the carrier."
Why, does no other country pay shipping or handling charges. The tax question has been answered.
"UK retailers have to pay UK building costs, cover it with UK insurance, fill it with UK staff, pay UK National Insurance and wages for those staff who want to live in UK housing. They then have to advertise their business at UK rates and ship their product using UK carrier charges."
Replace the UK with any country, they have to pay it. Or their demographic equivalents.
I do get tired of correcting people who don't do the tiniest bit of research into their ill thought out rebuttals.
"I do get tired of correcting people who don't do the tiniest bit of research into their ill thought out rebuttals."
Feeling that pretty well right now.
Which part of property, staff and other costs being significantly higher in the UK didn't you understand?
Let's put it another way, would you swap a £50k salary for $50k one? No, I thought not.
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