Spotify no longer produces Auto Thing, a dashboard add-on that made it simpler to operate the streaming app on your phone while driving. The choice brought the corporation € 31 million (about $ 32 million), as stated in the company’s most recent earnings statement. Our choice to quit producing Auto Thing had a negative influence on the Reported Gross periphery, according to the press announcement.
We’ve made the decision to cease further production of Auto Thing units “based on a number of variables, including product demand and force chain concerns,” a company prophet told TechCrunch. Bias will function as planned. Helpful literacy has been uncorked as a result of our actions, and we continue to emphasize the importance of audio in the car.
The release of Auto Thing was a little strange. Prior to Spotify opening up a public waitlist to buy the accessory in October 2021, it was initially made available on an invite-only basis starting in April 2021. It only became widely available this February, which means that it had only been in use for five months when Spotify intimately announced its discontinuation.
We weren’t quite sold on the promise of the Auto Thing when we gave it a try. There are numerous workarounds to enabling your phone’s audio to play over your car stereo without the need for a separate device, and increasing numbers of buses are now equipped with infotainment systems that allow simple, built-in access to Spotify, reducing the need for a separate device.
The item is still on sale on Spotify’s website as of this writing, where it is now being sold for $49.99 (as opposed to its usual retail price of $89.99). Although Spotify hasn’t specified how long it intends to maintain the device, given that it was only released briefly, we wouldn’t count on it lasting for very long.
