> Also, activating Bluetooth is as frictionless as activating WiFi.

Not in my experience. Bluetooth is functional, but it's hard to call it better.

* Connecting 2 people (phones) to one device is hardly supported.

* Those 2 people can't really manage a single playlist without special effort.

* Auto connecting to a bluetooth speaker when I walk in the house doesn't happen. It does with wifi.

* Connecting to the bluetooth speaker typically kicks off any other connection

* The issue of walking too far from the bluetooth speaker with the playing device still exists.

* Ever run the microwave while streaming audio over bluetooth? It doesn't work.

In my experience, bluetooth is better at one thing: streaming whatever audio from whatever app I want.

Because you aren't the only one enjoying the music at your home. The most annoying thing about being at a party where bluetooth audio is being used is when the person paired gets too far away from the speaker.

That would be trivial, but the small change in experience diminishes the value. If I want music in my bedroom, I don't want to have to walk to my living room to get the tablet, and I don't want to install a tablet in every room with instructions for how to use with Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, Pocket Casts, Apple Music, our networked media SSD, etc. or where I happen to want to pull music from. I don't want to have extra devices everywhere that require their own cords and physical spaces.

Sonos allows my wife and I to simply play whatever music we want, wherever we want, with no hassle. And it sounds great.

If you've got a spare tablet laying around, I'll take it.

That's a fine solution if you have an extra one laying around. But I don't and I'm hesitant to buy a tablet just to drive a speaker.

Is it even more expensive to drive a regular speaker with a dedicated tablet than a Sonos speaker?

Yeah cost is definitely not going to be a reasonable factor wrt Sonos equipment comparison. I think the tablet being misplaced, broken or otherwise abused is more troublesome.

>Also, activating Bluetooth is as frictionless as activating WiFi.

Oh my, no. Activating bluetooth is so frustrating that Apple built a special chip to make it easier. That Sonos work over Wifi and not Bluetooth is the primary selling point.

You're hosting a party and you run out of something so you run to the store.