Spotify has officially shut down its Car Thing accessory that offered simple and slick control over music and playlists while driving, and it’s giving owners just over a month (January 14th ...

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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 streaming service. Car Thing owners who ...

Car Thing is a small touchscreen device targeting owners of ... t made lightly," Spotify wrote on its website, adding it was discontinuing Car Thing to "streamline our product offerings." ...

After quickly discontinuing the product in 2022, Spotify now says existing units will stop working by the end of this year, and suggests current owners should quite literally throw them in the ...

Spotify is discontinuing support for Car Thing in December, which turns it into a brick. The company says to throw away the hardware device that cost adopters $90. It doesn’t appear as though ...

Unfortunately for those owners, Spotify isn’t offering ... as part of our ongoing efforts to streamline our product offerings,” Spotify wrote in an FAQ on its website.

As news about Spotify’s new payment model has torturously dribbled out — details have been leaked through sources, with little official comment from the company — it’s not surprising that ...

According to the report, Spotify will fine music distributors ... introduced a user-centric model, which distributes payments based on the number of streams rather than an artist’s share ...