It also disappointed people with its phone that came out in 2013 in partnership with HTC. Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook plans to stop producing a consumer version of a videoconferencing device dubbed Portal, instead focusing on the business market. It announced a new type of Spectacles last year, featuring augmented reality.
Snap Inc shelved its original Spectacles, $130 sunglasses that transmitted video directly to the SnapChat app, back in 2017. Spotify was not the first software company to seek to extend its relationship with users into the physical world through devices.Īlphabet Inc's Google was one of the early software companies to venture into hardware experiments with some major failures, including Google Glass - a wearable Android device resembling eyeglasses, which displayed information in the user's field of vision. After unveiling trials in May 2019, Spotify tested the device with a small group of people in April 2021, and then brought it to wider release in February this year. "So we decided to terminate this program in light of that."Ĭar Thing was a next-generation stereo designed to stream Spotify's music and podcasts from the user's phone through the car audio system. "We just can't get it to an attractive economical profile," Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told Reuters.
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