Spotify Car Thing

In April 2021, Spotify announced the cleverly titled “Car Thing”, a small touchscreen device for playing music in your car via Bluetooth. Sound familiar? The entire reason for Spotify’s existence is for people to listen to music on their phones without a second device, and now they’ve created a standalone device… that can only run Spotify. Released in 2022, it left everyone asking, “Why?” The Car Thing was priced at $89.99, a pretty steep cost for something completely unnecessary since all modern cars and phones already do this. But hey, at least Spotify offered refunds to the unfortunate few who bought it.

Additional info:

The Verge - Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold

Tech Crunch - Spotify offers Car Thing refunds as it faces lawsuit over bricking the streaming device

Gizmodo - Spotify Is Bricking Car Thing, Leaving Users (Rightfully) Furious