Spotify Stops Making Dash-Mounted 'Car Thing' Just Five Months After Launch

Spotify has unceremoniously stopped making the dash-mounted "Car Thing," its first hardware device, the company announced this week.
The change was announced as part of Spotify's latest earnings release for shareholders, which said that developing the Car Thing cost €31 million (approximately $32 million USD)and that its overall gross margin was "negatively impacted by our decision to stop manufacturing Car Thing." Spotify told TechCrunch:Based on several factors, including product demand a