Spotify's music-streaming Car Thing needed a smartphone app to run, and is now being replaced by that smartphone app.

You only have a month to get a refund if you bought a Car Thing. All Spotify Car Thing devices have been disabled. Trying to reboot it will display the following message: "Car Thing is discontinued ...

Spotify today shut down all Car Thing accessories, several months after announcing plans to discontinue the product. As of this week, Car Thing is no longer functional and will not work with the ...

Spotify Technology SA SPOT has decided to refund customers who purchased its Car Thing dashboard accessory before deactivating the devices in December. What Happened: The music streaming platform, ...

Ever since Spotify announced that it would kill Car Thing, there’s been a push for the company to open the product to allow users to tweak it to keep it useful. But, as it turns out, Spotify has ...

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After Spotify sent a notice about ending Car Thing's operations, it is now issuing refunds to the customers who purchased the device. The refund will depend on how much a person bought during the sale ...

In 2021, Spotify launched Car Thing to create an in-auto dashboard specifically for Spotify. Now the streamer isn’t just abandoning the device after three years, it will cause the device to stop ...

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 has been facing criticism for deciding to brick its Car Thing devices by the end of the year, rendering them useless. Tech journalist Josh Hendrickson revealed that the Car Thing runs on Linux ...

Brady Snyder is a technology journalist that has written about mobile devices and computers for multiple publications for over two years. He graduated from St. John's University with a B.S. in ...