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Did y'all even click the article?
It will be rebranded, basically, to become the Google TV streamer. The tech is not going anywhere.
"In place of the Chromecast, the company will offer the newly announced $99.99 Google TV Streamer, which launches on September 24th."
And? Do they plan to put all the software open source so that the millions of hardware they sold would not go to waste in some years? We should force them to by law.
.... Does this mean that the chromecast with google tv that is pictured, and that i just bought, will soon stop working?
What's "soon"? Should be good for a couple of years
Gone the Google way. One more for the Google Graveyard.
Whats my next move when my chromecast audio dies? I love that thing
This is why I'd never invest in anything Google.
It's already rolling the dice to see if they enshitify things fast enough to ruin it for me, but now you know they will just kill whatever you have been using on a whim
I'll stick to my Nvida Shield thank you very much. They are slow as hell with updates but when they do they even update the old 2017 devices.
Isn't Chromecast built into most devices now? Why would someone need a dongle to do what the TV can do natively? Otherwise something like an Nvidia Shield is a better option anyway.
Old, dumb or smart TVs without a connection to the internet but still want to either cast to or browse on.
I use mine to avoid using the Samsung UI which I also piholed the hell out of for Samsung ad services...
Because some smart TVs will up and brick themselves by irreparably filling their storage with various updates to the point of no longer being able to install or even update anything on the TV whatsoever THANK YOU Samsung)
No? Some of the most popular TV brands like LG and Samsung don't. And if your TV doesn't have Android, buying a Chromecast is a super cheap way to get it.
I have an amazing 4k oled TV but it doesn't have android so I still had to buy a Chromecast for it because otherwise I had no way to watch TV.
Add it to the pile of dead google projects
I've never even seen this thing? All the Chromecast I've seen over the last 4-5 years have been in-built modules in Android TVs.
Don't know anything about newer Chromecast but I really love my older one. Its just a dumb stick with no apps built in that I can cast stuff from my phone to. The only recent annoying thing with it is that the YouTube app changed the behaviour when you're connected, so now instead of tapping on a video to bring up a menu asking whether to play it now or add it to the queue it now just defaults playing it now when you tap on it. Makes setting up a queue of videos really annoying now cause you have to tap on the three dots to add it to the queue now.
Noticed this too and it's annoying as ferk. It's messed up many a queue between my wife and i
Switched to apple TV already. Googles lame ad infused cheap plastic remote did the trick on me. They have to pay ME if they want a Youtube and Netflix ad laying on my table at home.
Don't turn your remote over or you'll have an Apple ad laying around.
Ok. Can someone please update https://killedbygoogle.com/ with this and increase the counter with +1?
It's already done
Won't Chromecast still exist as a service? Just because they aren't making the dongle doesn't mean all the Chromecast enabled devices are just going to stop working or even being made. Just about every display that's made has Chromecast built in now.
The casting protocol? Yes. Those devices? No. They're moving to Android TV devices with different branding
as you were corrected elsewhere, no they don't.
