[physicsguy]

The point was that you could have an optical out connection to a Hi-Fi system and things would just work from Spotify, etc... The google speakers don't even have an aux out. A Rasperry Pi isn't at all equivalent as it's not plug and play.

[mgaunard]

If you're posting on hacker news surely you would be able to install raspotify on a debian raspberry pi or just load the moode audio image.