• tal@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    It’s a little annoying how the article only gives much of a hint as to what exactly a Car Thing is, beyond a “dashboard accessory”, in the last paragraph of the article:

    the product was more of a remote control for Spotify on your mobile phone than any kind of standalone player

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      5 months ago

      It’s worth noting that it was quite cheap and therefore a very good budget option to MacGyver music streaming into older cars.

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      5 months ago

      Car Thing is basically the Rabbit R1, but for music. In other words, a cheap Android device, with one app (a car dashboard variation of Spotify), a scroll wheel, and a some shortcut buttons.

      It works by connecting to your phone via Bluetooth. So, yeah, instead of using the phone for the auto friendly UI, it pipes that UI to a second cheaper mobile device.

      It’s truly stupid, and it cost about the same as an external CarPlay / Android Auto screen… which could display an auto friendly Spotify UI, and much much more.