If you’ve ever poked around the world of high-end audio, you’ve come across Roon — it’s basically a very fancy riff on the classic iTunes app that can stream to all sorts of fancy devices. Well, it just got bought out by Harman, the parent company of JBL, Harman Kardon, Infinity, and others. (Harman itself was bought by Samsung in 2016 as part of a bet on connected cars, which, well, sure.) Along with this forum post, a press release says Roon will not become a proprietary hell app: People who can afford to pay for a high-end music service that works with their high-end music gear love change so we’ll see how this goes!
god that website was ugly and hard to read and the “article” was barely 2 paragraphs of a quality I’d expect from a tweet.
The Verge is now a hybrid feed of those tweet-like blog posts and actual articles.