Spotify is busting free of CarPlay with the launch of its first native car app

Spotify announced Wednesday the motorboat of its next-generation, afloat autochthonal in-car app, built straight connected Google's Android Automotive operating system. The standalone app, which is launching contiguous successful prime Audi models, runs straight connected the vehicle's infotainment hardware - eliminating the request for telephone tethering, Bluetooth connections, oregon aux cables.

It's the clearest motion yet that Spotify is acceptable to determination beyond Apple CarPlay and Android, fashionable telephone projection systems that presently predominate the mode astir radical devour media successful their cars. And with 34 percent of Spotify's monthly progressive users and 77 percent of Premium subscribers stre …

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