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Patrick Spence, CEO of Sonos, was forced to resign following a disastrous app release that rendered people's speaker systems useless. Let's take a look a what went wrong and where Sonos goes from here.

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- Was Flutter to blame?

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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence resigned after the company's disastrous app launch that tarnished its reputation and led to massive financial losses. The app was rewritten using Flutter but released in an unstable state. This move severely impacted the user experience and highlighted the risks of prioritizing premature product releases. The new CEO has since fired the chief product officer, amid rumors of executive negligence towards engineers' warnings.

The most disastrous app launch of all time…

<p>Let’s see who found out about daily.dev thanks to this video</p>


<p>Ok he got me, now i’m here… Reddit been not very useful lately.</p>


<p>Clickbait Shield just bitch slapped the title of this video 😄</p>
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<p>already watching on daily.dev lol</p>
