Thats the vibe. In this case, it seems like they get more value from the signals they interpret from the devices already out there.
In a better world, these devices (and maybe even the Chromecast protocol) would be opens sourced
Comment on Google has a fix for all of the broken Chromecasts
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
“Buy new Chromecasts.”
afk_strats@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tonytins@pawb.social 2 months ago
You’d think such as a simple protocol would be.
andybytes@programming.dev 1 month ago
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Except that, despite their usual MO, they did actually fix it so people didn’t need to buy new devices.