Software patents, making things worse for everyone and usual. Another useful feature nobody can implement, because @Sonos decided to be assholes and call dibs on it. They deserve everything bad coming to them.https://t.co/Xq4Xp7f6WY

— Fede Heinz (@fheinz) January 7, 2022

Say goodbye to speaker group volume controls for Google speakers, which is a pretty big feature to give up for existing users. Sonos has Google by the balls here. https://t.co/XlfLfcrzR2 pic.twitter.com/nsBV4QSeh3

— Artem Russakovskii (@ArtemR) January 7, 2022

It has been suspected - but not confirmed - that Android's implementation of remote volume button control of Cast devices was in violation of one of Sonos's audio patents, which may be why the feature was initially disabled in Android 12.

— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) January 6, 2022

Statement by Google sent to @business: https://t.co/KNymrtrmVl pic.twitter.com/Owk1zbch3A

— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) January 6, 2022

Import ban goes into effect in 60 days after a presidential review. The impact on Google's business will be limited since hardware is still a small business relative to ads, and the patents apply mainly to older products and not newer ones. Latest update https://t.co/6V18pxQc9a

— Daisuke Wakabayashi (@daiwaka) January 7, 2022

wow, that was fast. In another universe, Google and Sonos might have collaborated and made a nice ecosystem alternative to Apple’s stuff, but here we are https://t.co/nfo9uRJxRr

— Owen Williams ⚡ (@ow) January 7, 2022

President Biden could still exercise veto power over this decision.

— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) January 6, 2022

Statement by Sonos sent to @business: https://t.co/KNymrtrmVl pic.twitter.com/csLrjHJxaZ

— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) January 6, 2022

Google views this as a politically opportunistic shakedown.

Sonos views this as big tech finally having to pay up for the IP it's lifted.

This is a religious debate, and not one that is likely to end soon.

— David Ruddock (@RDRv3) January 6, 2022

After all, Google is down to its last $200 billion or so. Can’t throw it away on royalties. pic.twitter.com/1tWnkfIrbt

— Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) January 7, 2022

It's funny, Google and their paid DC policy proxies often accuse smaller competitors of "whining" to Congress, like they did when Sonos testified about this very issue back in January 2020.

But Sonos was right. https://t.co/KY8J5wI7iE

— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) January 7, 2022

Big win for Sonos - Google has to now decide whether trying to engineer around these patents is less expensive than settling the outstanding suits for money and playing ball https://t.co/mjYbRjt52M

— nilay patel (@reckless) January 7, 2022

Wow Google got rekt by Sonos https://t.co/w7LpDOBNCu

— Owen Williams ⚡ (@ow) January 6, 2022

Google will have a very hard time appealing this. The next question is which products will be banned. Absolutely disastrous outcome. https://t.co/Xt26T592J7

— David Ruddock (@RDRv3) January 6, 2022

Google has announced changes to how you set up Nest devices and configure speaker groups. You'll no longer be able to use the group volume control or change speaker group volume using your phone's physical buttons. https://t.co/4xYicKwFVc pic.twitter.com/r7fMjJr3ZY

— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) January 7, 2022

Sonos wins patent dispute with Google, says it's time for Google to pay up | ZDNet https://t.co/8NgVir9bUr pic.twitter.com/PmJ2N69cYj

— Jean-Claude Frick (@jcfrick) January 7, 2022

Sonos wins patent dispute with Google, says it's time for Google to pay up https://t.co/z1lITGVu1w by @StephCondonPDX

— ZDNet (@ZDNet) January 7, 2022