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, ...

Man, this feels good! If you bought Spotify's oddly named Car Thing, you literally threw $90 out of the window. The company announced the end of the device two years ago, promising to let Car Thing ...

Spotify’s Car Thing has been officially discontinued and bricked as of December 9, 2024. However, some users have found ways to bypass the brick and continue using the device. These solutions range ...

Spotify's first hardware product, Car Thing, is now officially dead. All Spotify Car Thing devices have been disabled. Trying to reboot it will display the following message: "Car Thing is ...

Owners of Spotify's soon-to-be-bricked Car Thing device are begging the company to open source the gadgets to save some the landfill. Spotify hasn't responded to pleas to salvage the hardware, which ...

Spotify has discontinued its Car Thing gadget, used for listening to and controlling Spotify in the car. The company is effectively bricking the device and has encouraged owners to “safely” dispose of ...

Spotify's experiment into dedicated audio hardware has ended, and customers who paid $90 to be early adopters for its Car Thing device will get their money back. The company confirmed to CNET that as ...

Spotify released the Car Thing back in 2021. Since then, it's gathered a niche following and that group wasn't too happy when Spotify decided to pull the plug earlier this year. As of December 9, 2024 ...

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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 ...