Spotify will refund owners of Car Thing, its Spotify-playing device that mounts to car dashboards, Ars Technica confirmed today. On May 23, Spotify announced that it would brick all Car Things on ...

Spotify's music-streaming Car Thing needed a smartphone app to run, and is now being replaced by that smartphone app. In 2022, the popular music streaming platform Spotify came out with the Car Thing, ...

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If you’re a Spotify user, there’s no doubt the launch of Car Thing earlier this year caught your attention, especially as it was supposed to make listening to music a much more enjoyable experience ...

If you’re one of the poor souls who shelled out $90 for a Spotify Car Thing, I have even more bad news. Your already questionable investment is about to become a certifiably bad one because Spotify ...

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Spotify's Car Thing, we barely knew thee. Credit: Spotify Remember Spotify's Car Thing, the somewhat odd device that plays music in your car but only works with Spotify and requires a phone connection ...

After less than a year of general sale, the company announced it had stopped making the dashboard accessory in its quarterly earnings report. Reading time 3 minutes R.I.P. to Car Thing, the Bluetooth ...

In 2022, the popular music streaming platform Spotify came out with the Car Thing, a curious little piece of hardware designed to make listening to its music offerings in the car easier. The idea, it ...