I'm not sure, but maybe by using your smartphone? Since you need a smartphone connection for this to work in the first place, you might as well save 80$ and cut out the middleman.How does one listen to Spotify if they're driving an older car with an old radio/no infotainment system?
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Spotify is looking to provide a product for customers who want a "more seamless" and personalized in-car listening experience, especially in the large number of cars that do not support modern in-car infotainment systems.
Well, maybe you want to use your phone for navigation. Then it could be good to have a voice-activated dedicated screen for Spotify, I guess.I'm not sure, but maybe by using your smartphone? Since you need a smartphone connection for this to work in the first place, you might as well save 80$ and cut out the middleman.
Bonus: you can use your phone for other cool things too, like GPS navigation!
That’s the odd part you still have to connect your phone to the car and connect the device to your phone. It’s like adding an extra layer just for fun.Why would a company invest all the R&D and energy into a new device that will surely have fewer and fewer users with each passing year? Every new car has built-in entertainment that syncs with phones. And the cars that don’t have them are getting older and older and more likely to be trashed.
Well, the device has microphones that are always on and a screen that is always on. Your phone probably doesn't have that.That’s the odd part you still have to connect your phone to the car and connect the device to your phone. It’s like adding an extra layer just for fun.
Oh great so Spotify is always spying on you. Don't know that I would trust them with that capability.Well, the device has microphones that are always on and a screen that is always on. Your phone probably doesn't have that.
Only people I can think of would have been my parents when they still had their old Prius with no Bluetooth.How does it get it's content? Cellular? I'm not sure who this is really for?
It feels like the wrong approach though. Why not just team up with the car providers and provide a built in app - similar to how Sirius XM does. Most of these new cars come with cellular anyway; or some sort of dedicated chip that you could activate built into the radio like Sirius.Eh, at least they’re trying something. I’ve always said that, for any company strongly complaining about Apple’s App Store and ecosystem, work your way out of it, then. If this is part of that effort, then they’ve earned a little respect from me. A future version could even be affiliated with T-mobile’s new service, $60 a month for that, add in 10 dollars for the subsidized device and you’ve got Spotify wherever you are.
Given that you have to have a Spotify Premium subscription to use it, I think they would have your information anyway.This feels like a scam, and I think I just got scammed. They ask you to be "put on the list" IF "Car Thing becomes available" ... in reality they asked me to confirm my contact information, seems like a data grab.
How does one listen to Spotify if they're driving an older car with an old radio/no infotainment system?
2nd sentence of this post...
Spotify is looking to provide a product for customers who want a "more seamless" and personalized in-car listening experience, especially in the large number of cars that do not support modern in-car infotainment systems.
It says it's voice controlled, I guess in the same vein as the Amazon and Google voice controlled devices.How do you use it "hands-off"? Or is Spotify ignoring safety in the name of hardware sales? Guess they are thinking it's no different than your radio tuner knob. But it's very different since you need to look at the screen to see what you're navigating.