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Will Sonos Ever Be the Next Big Thing? This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

With tens of millions of consumers storing music on their hard drives, and many millions more using wireless home networks, it makes sense that many of these consumers will look to free that music by streaming it around the home, right? Yamaha, Cisco and Sonos sure think so. But as the big names in both home networks and home stereos have converged on the space, the early returns on their investments haven’t proved as explosive as they probably would like. While many tech-savvy consumers have heard of Sonos (and those that buy the products rave about them), home network-powered multiroom music is by no means a mass market product category — yet. […]

Question of the Week

Do you think wireless music streaming around the home will replace CDs and speaker docks in the future?

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  1. kenwirt
    2009/06/23 at 08:56
    Cisco is trying to make it easier by offering bundles -- but it's still not easy to figure out what to buy.

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    Submitted by Michael Wolf

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    Submitted by Michael Wolf

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