In 2022, the popular music streaming platform Spotify came out with the Car Thing, a curious little piece of hardware designed to make listening to its music offerings in the car easier. The idea, it ...

Music and iPhones are happy bedfellows. With Apple Music, Spotify, and other streaming services opening up an almost limitless supply of albums, it makes sense to use smartphones as our primary ...

The company has provided no specific reason but said the decision to discontinue Car Thing was made “as part of our ongoing efforts to streamline [their] product offerings.” Spotify announced that it ...

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Tesla appears to be shifting its in-car music streaming strategy and it is crashing this stock in the process. Tesla doesn’t use phone-mirroring systems like Apple CarPLay and Android Auto. The ...

Elliott Scheiner knows what music should sound like. The Grammy Award-winning producer and sound engineer has spent a lifetime developing it for the world’s best musicians: Aerosmith, Paul Simon, Eric ...

I’ve been covering Android since 2023, when I joined Android Police, mostly focusing on AI and everything around Pixel and Galaxy phones. I’ve got a bachelor’s in IT with a major in AI, so I naturally ...