Spotify Car Thing will be discontinued

[just444]

Spotify sold 'Car Thing', discontinued it 3 years later, and is now bricking all of them without offering refunds

How is this legal? pic.twitter.com/1L1jwg6QX8
- Jeff 💙✌️ (@JeffTutorials) May 23, 2024

sourceDiscontinuing in a "it won't work anymore" not just a "won't support it anymore" way

Comments

[squirrels_oh_no]

Better this thing than another bionic eye being turned off by the start up that designed it without warning the blind people they impanted it in.

But still, this is ridiculous. I keep hearing about Amazon thinking about stopping all development of Echo devices, too, since people aren't using them to buy stuff like Amazon wants.

[alwayspolaris]

Semi-related, it's absolutely terrible that there's no good facepalm emoji face outside of ontd (just the half-body one which is less visible) but I am always looking for it when messaging because it's so useful here and would be even more useful in our work teams chat.

Also I don't think the bionic eyes just were shut off by the company, but they did stop servicing them and laid off the techs - which should still be illegal when it involves something this important. Planned obsolesce should also be banned.

[tetrazzinichikn]

WHAT!!

[sandstorm]

Amazon can definitely sell the data of people using Echo devices unless you're like my mother and forgets she has it and only uses it to play Pandora and no one wants to pay for that.

[mhfromnh]

I listen to terrestrial radio and the CDs I have in the door pocket.

[mwffj]

I'm a weirdo who still listens to terrestrial radio stations in the car

[calichaos]

I mean they have free ticket giveaways so (very rarely) i do too depending on the giveaway

[mhfromnh]

it's free, which is my favorite price.

[epicdonald]

yeah if there's something i really really really wanna listen to i'll connect my phone via bluetooth. but a lot of the time i just listen to FM because it provides some variety/surprises

[bitchsdangerous]

I got one on a discount when it first came out. I wasn’t overly impressed. About four months ago I got tired of the screen constantly glitching and unplugged it. Just removed it from my car yesterday. 😂

[originaru]

how old does a car need to be to use one of these? i don't have bluetooth capabilities in my car and it's like a 05. i use an aux cord and an adaptor lol.

[blazingeternity]

There's even a cassette to AUX adapter for the even more vintage cars! (It looks like a cassette which you put in the player, but it has a cable coming out to plug into your phone/mp3 player :D)

[kamikashi]

thats what i used in my previous car for a few years lol. my car was only a 2001 i think so lmaooo for more "vintage." but i upgraded cars and eventually upgraded my phone to one that didnt have the aux port booooo

[blazingeternity]

😅 Well, where I live, 30-year-old cars are considered "vintage" and can get registered in a special category with different taxes and number plates! Mine was from 1995 (rip) and I upgraded the radio thing to one with a cd player eventually, but the cassette adapter was so cute! Nooh at having no aux port! What are you using now to play music in your car?