Speakers are more fashionable than ever as shown by the different models that Amazon has offered us for a long time with its Amazon Echo, or Google with its Google Home. Apple has been the last to join the party, and now it seems it's Spotify's turn.
Apple's big rival in the streaming music business seems to have realized that Offering hardware as well as software can be a way to earn more money and above all, to secure customers, and is already offering different jobs all oriented to the manufacture and sale of devices.
Although the job offers do not specify what they plan to manufacture, What could Spotify sell besides its music service? It seems that the most obvious answer is a speaker that integrates your application and that can be controlled by voice. After the critical success of the HomePod, the Swedish company seems determined to follow in Apple's footsteps.
Will it be a closed speaker like Apple's? It could be a speaker that only had its application integrated and that could not be used with other applications like Apple Music or Tidal. Perhaps they could offer it as part of a slightly more expensive subscription than the current one and a dwell time ... or maybe it's a multiplatform speaker like the ones Sonos offers. There are many unknowns that we have to know, among others the price and the sound quality that it would offer us.
Apple, Amazon, Google, and Sonos are getting the spotlight lately, Classics such as B&O, B&W or Bose for the moment continue with their invariable roadmap somewhat apart from what the greats of technology do. Spotify seems determined to enter this battle, and the swords are at the top. We have some very interesting months left in the world of music.
