What changed? I thought that is still what they did.
Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line
_pete_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I feel the original Chromecast was probably the last truly great original Google product, it was simple, it was inexpensive and it worked - you just plugged it in, joined your network and you were off, there really wasn’t anything like it at the time.
I really hate what they’ve become.
bam13302@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
CameronDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
Chromecast with Google TV made the “simple” casting worse for some apps like Netflix. Instead of it casting directly, it would spawn the Netflix app and make you use the remote to reselect the show you wanted to see.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Also they made it reliant on the Google Home app, which makes it really hard to change WiFi networks. It’s a pain in the ass if you have multiple WiFi networks setup at your house.
CameronDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
Remind me, what app did it use before? I have had Chromecast since gen 1, can’t remember any other app, but that’s probably my memory failing.
FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Why on earth would you have multiple WiFi networks in your home?
jpeps@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah I got one of the newer ones after having a ton of the earlier models and I was disgusted by that change. Instantly returned it and bought one of the discontinued Ultras for 4K.
CameronDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
I did the exact same thing. Its such a stupid step backwards in functionality.
_pete_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I feels like they either badly copy (see Gemini) or don’t think about what they’re offering (see Stadia’s busted business model) they’re content to milk the existing services they’ve already got and make them worse by cramming in more ads (see YouTube, Google’s search result pages) and they cut out or dictate the web through their monopolies (see AMP and Chrome) rather than working with other parties to make good products.
They feel like Hooli in Silicon Valley, basically the definition of a fat tech giant who doesn’t do any innovation of their own.
ealoe@ani.social 1 month ago
Badly copy (see Gemini)
Tf are you smoking dude, Google has been working on AI long before ChatGPT was a twinkle in Sam Altman’s eye. They didn’t release any public models because they wanted to go about it safely and not just dump the world’s best misinformation creator on the open market for anyone to use with little safeguards. All that went out the window when ChatGPT got all the press and google decided they wanted a piece of the hype, but pretending they “didn’t do any innovation of their own” in regards to AI is ludicrous. They have been at the forefront of AI development for the last decade, and the fact you think otherwise shows your only knowledge about AI is from after ChatGPT headlines started coming out.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
That’s what they did until OpenAI started making noise and management pushed out everybody working on safety and quality to cut corners and rush something out to compete (poorly)
Head@lemmings.world 1 month ago
I still have and use one. Will it stop working now?
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
What’s funny is that was actually the start of them becoming who they are now. There’s a litany of evidence they stole the Chromecast technology
Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
The remote playback control over network patents? I can’t see why those patents should be valid, everything there has prior art done in the 80’s