EDIT: The only reason why I still had it at this point was because I could use it with other apps. However, now that my Spotify Subscription is cancelled, it doesn’t work with anything. It’s mildly infuriating because today, I can’t still use it with other apps like I was able to yesterday.

Please don’t make the same mistake I made. No one should buy this.

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The system working as intended. Now you’re “locked in”.

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Something tells me they just didn’t realize someone would buy a Spotify car play without already having a subscription.

I mean really, you’re too cheap for 9.99/m but you’ll drop 100 bucks for something your phone already does?

Seems like OP is just in a very unique situation that Spotify didn’t expect anyone to be in.

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They say never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence. But with a corporations I’m pretty sure its the other way around.

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I mean, on all the purchase advertisements they said you must have Spotify premium to use this.

They subsidized the price the device based on the expected return from convincing people to keep their subscriptions. Since it supports other clients they probably also have to manage software updates.

Spotify is a bag of dicks for a lot of other reasons but this really doesn’t seem to be one of them.

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I’d usually agree but this product seems exclusively intended for someone who’s heavily into Spotify, and the marketing clearly states you need a subscription.

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9.99/m is 119.88/y and it doesn’t stop. Maybe OP thought that the purchase was a one time purchase, and I don’t really blame him, since why would the thing exist if phones with a subscription can already do that it does?

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Doesn’t stop? You sign on the dotted line for a lifetime of payments? You can’t cancel your subscription?

since why would the thing exist if phones with a subscription can already do that it does?

That’s the exact logic that would lead someone with an ounce of intelligence to go “oh yeah, this product is a completely stupid piece of shit that’s marketed toward people with more money than brain cells.”

Did it say anywhere on the package that it gets you a lifetime subscription to Spotify? No. Does OP understand that Spotify works on a subscription model? Probably, Saas isnt fucking new.

This is the kind of boy-who-cried-wolf bullshit that keeps corporations from actually being held accountable, because people who want better worker’s rights and taxes on corporations look like idiots when lumped in with children like you who consider personal responsibility and thinking for yourself to be too scawy.

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I don’t really blame him

He bought a piece of convenience tech designed for a specific piece of software, when said convenience tech is totally unnecessary to the function of that software, then got mad that he needed the software

I am shocked that everyone in this thread isn’t roasting this dude nonstop. He’s an idiot.

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Sadly he is always right. I wish he was wrong all the time.

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I’d check his wikipedia page before throwing around “always” like that.

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“Just find another job place to live head unit”

-deliberately obtuse bootlickers

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