Although Spotify is the largest provider of streaming music, with more than 50 million subscribers to date, the company has some disadvantages compared to other similar services such as Apple Music, since the apple company promotes its streaming platform through their own devices.
This could be the reason why Spotify recently posted a job posting on its website specifying that it is looking for a “Hardware Project Manager”. According to this list, the person hired must lead a team of developers who will be in charge of creating some "fully connected devices".
Likewise, Spotify also points out that it intends to create devices capable of “defining new categories in the market”, in a similar way to pebble watch, Amazon Echo or Snap Spectacles.
For now it is unknown what plans the company has in mind, but one of the possibilities would be the development of a set of headphones that would be connected directly to the Spotify service. without requiring the use of the smartphone or additional applications.
Whichever product Spotify decides to bring to the market, it will surely have the ability to connect to the network and to its own streaming platform, although we could also expect a wearable with the ability to take photos or display notifications.
In another related job posting, the company also notes that it needs a product manager specializing in voice-controlled systems, so it is possible that these two offers are related to each other and we will see a Spotify wearable that not only has the possibility of connecting to its music service, but also allows the user to control music playback through a digital assistant for you.
Source: Spotify
