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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by airportline@lemmy.ml to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

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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[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

and the marketing clearly states you need a subscription.

So they knew. It was by design.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Knew what? That people buying the device already have one?

You still have it backwards. They didn't sell you the device to get you on the subscription, they assumed only people with money to spend on a subscription would WASTE A HUNDRED BUCKS ON SOME DUMB SHIT LIKE THIS.

[-] monkeytennis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Am I missing something, or would basically any old smartphone work in place of this? I have a Pixel which sits in a cradle and takes care of anything I'd use this for. I guess a physical button or dial might be nice, but I have a volume dial on the car dash.

Seems plainly obvious that it'll require a sub. It's a Spotify box.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You're correct, I have a five or six year old kindle fire i got for like 60 bucks that I rooted and installed stock android on, it's just a really cheap tablet now. Works perfectly for stuff like this.

My last smartphone would also have worked.

This whole thread is just a bunch of moron-consumer apologists. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to hate corporations and their practices, but this is just a bad purchase and buyers remorse packaged as big corpos fault.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They could have fixed that when they discontinued them quite easily.

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They just don't consider personal responsibility to even exist. It's the corporation's fault they spent a hundred bucks on a thing your old phone and a 15 dollar magnetic mount could have done for you, because said device needs a subscription service.

I had a guy tell me in this thread that I had "privilege" for saying Spotify didnt expect people without a paid subscription to be spending money on such an overpriced device. OP is throwing hundo's away on stupid shit but it HAS to be the corpos fault somehow, people will toss logic right out the window to keep the cognitive dissonance at bay.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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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