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I find this article overly negative. It sucks that Spotify is bricking it but I doubt they care that it’s a potato. You can still do cool things with a potato.
by tyleo 2y ago
I find this article overly negative. It sucks that Spotify is bricking it but I doubt they care that it’s a potato. You can still do cool things with a potato.
- nomel 2y agoI have one. I wanted to use it as a general purpose status display, with a nice clicky scroll knob and nice physical buttons, which is the exact use case it was designed for. So, this is fine. It's odd to claim that something is e-waste because it can only be used for its intended purpose, which they thought useful enough that they bought it.
- treesknees 2y agoSpotify isn't bricking it. Tech journalists incorrectly proclaimed it as 'bricked' because Spotify wasn't releasing any details or software. Turns out the details and software are already available.
- itsdrewmiller 2y agoIt is kind of sad that the people the journalists talked to at spotify (most likely) didn't understand that it was as open as it is, and instead went into defense mode.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoWell, in fairness, it will stop working as a Spotify Car Thing, and Spotify itself has said you should "recycle it" (meaning throw it away and pretend it will be recycled). That may not mean "bricked" by a technical hacker's definition, but I think that's "bricked" by the definition of 98% of people who bought the thing.