Eh as long as the protocol stays the same who cares? Everything has it built in nowadays, and even if it doesn't, I bet China won't stop making Chromecast dongles
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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Literally all my friends know the name "Chromecast", why would you rename it
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Is there anything interesting you can do with a Chromecast dongle by jailbreaking it, if you can get one for cheap?
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Will existing devices continue to work "forever" or must we add them to the graveyard?
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Be nice to have something to replace my Nvidia shield pro with that's not an apple tv. Looking forward to seeing how the new streaming device compares
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"Yes I know the customer learned that product name and has a good connotation with it, but how about we change the name to something completely different?"
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I know haha google graveyard funny, but over a decade of production only to be replaced by a similar product is a financial success.
Everyone knows after any commercial success the best thing you can do is rebrand by announcing the death of the successful product \s
"okay, what successful product are we going to kill next?"
In place of the Chromecast, the company will offer the newly announced $99.99 Google TV Streamer,
They're replacing it with a very similar product. Nothing to see here.
They’re replacing it with a very similar product. Nothing to see here.
Like they do with messengers every couple of years.
Or music streaming apps.
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A more expensive, clunkier product, with a bunch of needless fluff in it.
Now with AI!
I'm not sure why they didn't just call it the chrome cast gen whatever though.
So you could just ask it for anything and it could make it up?
"Google, show 'Ow! My Balls!'"
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You mean twice the ram (1 gig more than the shield), 4 times the storage (32 gigs), and a better remote (chirping find my remote feature, programmable button, and less shitty volume buttons)?
Yep. Sure sounds worse considering it also supports all the same features of the chromecast 4k and AV1 decoding.
Regular Chromecast work perfectly as YouTube jukebox.
What do you mean regular Chromecast?
What do you mean regular Chromecast?
Just regular Chromecast, not that Google TV stuff. That round dongle that does nothing but accept casting streams via that cast button in many Android apps.
They're supposedly using pretty much the same chipset. So the most important part is still underpowered, these Android boxes generally work fine even with 2-3GBs of RAM.
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For which they will be able to offer subscriptions in a year or 2.
Enshitification 101
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