Spotify officially kills Car Thing, remaining units have stopped working

As announced earlier this year, the Spotify Car Thing is dead and has been officially deactivated on all devices as of today.

Spotify launches Car Thing 2022 as its first hardware body. A simple screen with a rotary dial and a few buttons connects to your phone and car, giving you better control over your music. However, less than a year after it was launched, Spotify announces it will discontinue the device and end sales. Just two years later, Spotify further announced that it would stop operating existing devices Literally telling users to throw away their devices.

Now, unsurprisingly, the death of Spotify Car Thing has arrived.

Earlier today, Spotify Car Thing users started noticing their devices stopped functioning. we’ve seen reports Via Twitter/Xthe device now boots up and displays a message stating that the device is “no longer operational” and reiterating the refund terms, which will end in January.

Car Thing is discontinued and no longer in operation.

Thank you for embarking on this journey with us and I wish you a safe journey. For more information, visit carthing.com. Please contact customer service before January 14, 2025 to discuss your refund options.

Just because Spotify has abandoned the underlying foundation that the Car Thing runs on, doesn’t mean the device is completely useless, as there are some efforts to create new experiences on this hardware that don’t rely on Spotify’s backend. this Hardware power consumption is extremely low prevents it from being used to run Android effectively, but has There are some clever solutions Thanks to open source files Spotify launched a while ago.

RIP about the car. you are cool, Even if you are meaningless.

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