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That openness could, eventually, extend to "deeper integrations with potential partners" if Car Thing takes off, he added. "We want to be an open platform," he said.
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The update will even allow Car Thing to work for services that are Spotify's direct competitors. If you love Audible, Car Thing will be able to play, pause, skip and adjust volume for your audio books.
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Its software is on track for an update in "a few weeks" that will unlock it to control other audio apps, Söderström said. So Car Thing is only for Spotify - but only for now. Its standard subscription is $10 a month, though it comes as cheap as $5 a month for students. That means on top of the $90 you pay for the hardware, you also must pay for a Spotify membership.
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To Spotify, that meant drivers in roughly 140 million cars might stream Spotify more - or start paying for it if they don't already - if a device could replicate Apple's Car Play or Android Auto for them.Ĭurrently, Car Thing works only with Spotify's premium tier. But while roughly 50% to 70% of cars on US roads may be able to connect to a phone, they're not so fresh-off-the-line as to have an entertainment display that easily streams tunes and podcasts. He says Americans spent an "insane" 70 billion hours a year on the road pre-pandemic. Spotify's main listening location is the home, but the car is a close second, said Gustav Söderström, Spotify's chief research and development officer. But getting the device and using it - you can understand more the problem they're going after." "I was just interested in seeing Spotify's take on actually building their own hardware," said Suda, a 26-year-old student in Houston, who drives a 2012 Honda. But Spotify is betting that Suda and about 140 million of you have something in common: Your car doesn't have a fancy infotainment system to rival a Tesla's.

Unlike him, you probably didn't spend more time streaming music than sleeping last year. Suda was one of the earliest customers to get his hands on an invite-only release of Car Thing, Spotify's first-ever hardware device, which goes on sale Tuesday. Matt Suda spent 206,989 of them - more than a third of last year - listening to Spotify.
