As noted by TechCrunch today, in October 2021, Spotify CEO and founder Daniel Ek said that more than 2 million people initially signed up for the Car Thing waitlist. By July 2022, Spotify revealed ...

Spotify’s Car Thing, designed for older vehicles, will be discontinued with support ending in December 2024, sparking community-driven revival efforts.

Five months. That’s how long Spotify gave its Car Thing — a music-streaming device that connected your smartphone to your car via Bluetooth or an aux cable — before pulling the metaphorical ...

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?Yeah, we barely do, too. In any case, Spotify's Car ...

Car Thing, likened by at least one admirer as the Zune of the 2020s, will soon cease to exist following an announcement by Spotify late last week that the device will stop working on Dec. 9. It ...

Spotify is bricking Car Thing, its first hardware launch. The company isn't offering trade-ins on the $80 devices and told users to trash them.

That's right: if you spent $89.99 on Spotify Car Thing at launch, you are going to have an expensive electronic brick just over two and a half years later — a brick that Spotify is telling you ...

Spotify’s Car Thing, a limited hardware “test” the company began shipping only three years ago, is about to bite the dust.The company wrote on Thursday that the device, which brought Spotify ...

Spotify says the Car Thing will be discontinued December 9, 2024, but stranger still, it also says current users' devices will brick themselves on that same date.

Spotify is taking drastic measures to do away with its Car Thing – yes, that’s the real name for it – one of the only pieces of hardware it’s ever released.. The company rolled out Car ...

Notably, Spotify listed the projected price for the Car Thing at $79.99 when the waitlist opened last fall. If you have been planning to buy one since then, prepare to pay $10 more than expected.

Developer @MarcelD505 tried to load the Spotify Web Player on Car Thing, which would basically allow the device to service the purpose it was built for even after the December end of support ...