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Car Thing - The smart player from Spotify that fills your car with music

The smart player from Spotify that fills your car with music, news, entertainment, talk, and more.

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Ryan Hoover
Bold move to expand to hardware, somewhat similar to Facebook's investment in Portal.
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
This, in my view, is about positioning Spotify deeper in people's lives, and making the "Hey Spotify" voice assistant more useful and ubiquitous.
Justin Gardner
@chrismessina great comment Chris. Very interesting to read up on this.
Omavi Quadir
Car thing is a 10/10 name!! My grandma will love this!
Axel Norvell
Seems like the market is for older cars? Newer cars are more and more touch-screen enabled and even include car-play. Can't imagine there's a large audience for people wanting two touchscreens in there car that do the practically same thing.
Alexey Strelkov
@axel_norvell there isn't. I guess Spotify is just trying to see reactions to this concept, I imagine it's not a real product
Ryan Rules
This looks great! Any chance for non-US residents to order? I see it's US only at the moment.
Maikal
I think might be interesting for all these people with old cars and no Apple CarPlay / Android Auto connection. But for me is not worth it
Ian
I had a new car and it was great but now with an old car and no monthly payments I'm thinking you're right, this could be interesting, but I wonder how it would compare to the car speakers. I've got a great Bluetooth speaker that fills the car with sound, but it rolls around a lot.
Alexey Strelkov
@ianmayman I guess it connects to your car's audiosystem via bluetooth or aux. It's the only viable options
Ian
Old cars don't have Bluetooth if it's the original radio, some like mine don't have an Aux port either.
Aditya
@bartonsmith and @sarfoodie love the looks of it. Truly frictionless audio experience! Yup, that's what I was waiting for. Any plans for international release? Can't wait to test it 😁🎶
André Kuhlmann
I would love to see that as a smart home / media hub.
Jack Davis
Wow interesting hardware product! They seem rare these days.
Mudit Thareja
It will be interesting to see how spotify positions itself into the hardware
Alexey Strelkov
If this was released before carplay and android auto I would have understood, but now it seems weird. I get that Spotify is being salty because they don't want to play commissions on subscriptions to Apple and Google, but would someone really buy a device that's kind of like-a-phone-but-not for a car? And it's obvious that this is only useful for cars without carplay/android auto and not-so-useful for any car with bluetooth audio streaming (almost all cars).
Matt Gardner
@data_greed Something to be said for an always on dedicated control. I find Android Auto etc. is 100% a GPS tool and there is no desire to go open spotify while driving or even use Hey Google to play a song. I think of this as a cheap (or free) replacement to a dashboard radio which is easier to fiddle with and change track, station, etc. for cars that don't have integrated touch and gps. My Wife's 2016 Mazda 3 has bluetooth but nothing nicer and this would be great for it.
Alexey Strelkov
@thatmattgardner with bluetooth you can just use ask siri to start any radio station/playlist on spotify you want and use next/previous tracks to change tracks. What else is needed?
Matt Gardner
@data_greed Android auto in my experience really sucks at multitasking, and you lose browsability with voice. It's great if you have a song or album in mind but sometimes you wanna wing through a list and see what catches your eye (while not in motion of course). My car has Spotify built in and a big screen. I seldom use voice (one it sucks often, two I don't know what specifically I want to listen to til I see it!).
Brynn Williams
Yes, I recommend this product and we recommend this to our customers at our mercedes service center in dubai.
Blaz Bevc
smart, well done. What is next?
Junior Owolabi
How does this benefit anyone? Can't smartphones do the same thing? This reminds me of the Amazon Fire Phone.
Johnny Benton
Very interesting! I'm excited to examine the benefits of this over using your phone.
Arvilla Shawn
Nice name! Congrats on the launch!
M. Sue
Lovet he priduct idea, ordered one! Will he great for travel too
Stefan Chase
wow, awesome ide! From online to "offline" world
Partho Samrat
That is so futuristic .