Yesterday , Google trouble piles of folks by draw out the plug on the most awesome aspect of Chromecast , the power to play local contentthrough a third - party app . Today , the company ’s saying it was an accidental mistake , and that local content will last out . What gives ?
https://gizmodo.com/google-is-crippling-chromecasts-best-feature-1200683643
Soon after Chromecast arrived , developer Koushik Dutta put together astream - everything app called Aircast . It worked a fortune like an Android version of Apple AirPlay , mean you could push pretty much any video to the Google wonder dongle . In yesterday ’s robotlike Chromecast update ( which happens automatically when the gimmick is powered on and ca n’t be avoided ) , that functionality was lost . Dutta looked at the update anddecided that it broke the local streaming single-valued function intentionally .
https://gizmodo.com/aircast-turns-chromecast-into-an-android-airplay-1165893246
Google ’s statement says that ’s not the case , and blames Google Cast ’s newness while swearing that it sleep together local depicted object capability :
We ’re excited to fetch more content to Chromecast and would wish to digest all types of apps , including those for local depicted object . It ’s still early days for the Google Cast SDK , which we just released in developer preview for early development and examination only . We expect that the SDK will carry on to change before we launch out of developer prevue , and need to bring home the bacon a great experience for user and developers before making the SDK and extra apps more broadly available .
agree to Dutta , local content ’s disappearance still looks like it was done purposefully , so the vow of support for such apps seems a lot like a backtrack on Google ’s part . To be bonnie , mirroring from an open Chrome tab was never off the table , andfor $ 35 the Chromecast is still pretty impressive . venture we ’ll just have to wait and see whether it supports the kind of apps that could make it out - and - out awesome .
https://gizmodo.com/google-chromecast-review-a-little-dongle-with-big-pote-898743646
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