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Spotify’s Secret Car Thing Gen 1 Prototype - Android, Standalone, and Doomed
What This Video Covers
- How Spotify's first-generation Car Thing prototype differed from the hardware that eventually reached customers.
- Why this early version could run Android and operate far more independently than the production Car Thing.
- What Spotify has actually released as open source and what that means for people trying to keep Car Thing hardware useful.
- What obstacles still stand between an abandoned Car Thing and a practical second life.
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You may have heard the news that Spotify will brick its first hardware device, Car Thing. And you probably saw reports that Spotify refuses to open source the device so people can hack it and keep it going. But that's not true!
Today we'll get into the details of the Spotify Car Thing, its open source status, and the chances of modding it into something useful.
And if you have a Car Thing and don't know what to do with it, you can send it to me:
Josh Hendrickson
200 Loveland Madeira Rd #31
Loveland, OH 45140
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