Spotify has been facing criticism for deciding to brick its Car Thing devices by the end of the year, rendering them useless. Tech journalist Josh Hendrickson revealed that the Car Thing runs on Linux ...

Spotify will refund owners of Car Thing, its Spotify-playing device that mounts to car dashboards, Ars Technica confirmed today. On May 23, Spotify announced that it would brick all Car Things on ...

Owners of Spotify’s soon-to-be-bricked Car Thing device are begging the company to open-source the gadgets to save some from the landfill. Spotify hasn’t responded to pleas to salvage the hardware, ...