Google is no longer making Chromecasts and will let inventory run out
With the launch of the Google TV Streamer, Chromecasts are no longer being manufactured. The first Chromecast was announced in 2013...
They really do kill something off every other week, don't they?
I remember reading somewhere that employees are heavily incentivized to create new things. Invent something, develop something, just get something NEW out, but there are no incentives to support existing projects. Once a feature or product is complete and released, nobody wants to stay on the team to support it, and there's no perceived value in even continuing to produce it, much less evolve it.
That's why Google is always churning out new stuff, and then letting it languish and die. There's no internal money for support, only invention.
Sounds like American infrastructure...
They really need to just lease these innovations out to new teams that'll maintain them, or at least just open source it all.
They'd probably make a killing if they kept just making stuff then selling the infrastructure to other companies once they're bored.
That sounds like south Asian mentality, I mean I'm not saying it's because of south Asians, but just that it's a very similar thought process, most observable when it comes to buying new houses, people in India/pakistan where people won't mind paying large sums of money upfront for fancy condominiums, but will not pay high maintenance fees to keep the fancy facilities going.
"Former Google employee reveals dark secrets, 'raising of a new god' fed by scrapped projects"
Its not a killing, its a rebranding. Its just being called a killed device because its Google.
Its like claiming Apple is killing iPhones every few years.
"Apple killing iPhone S" in 2018.
"Apple killing iPhone C" in 2014, another for the Apple graveyard.
"Apple killing iPhone Plus" in 2018, another for the Apple graveyard.
"Apple killing the iPhone SE" in 2023, another for the Apple graveyard.
"Apple killing iPhone Mini" in 2022, another for the Apple graveyard.
This doesn't even include other devices like the G models, Unibodies, and Retina iMac models. Just look at that Apple graveyard growing and so quickly...
This could also be claimed on things from most other large, older tech companies. But the reality is, a rebranding is not a killing of the device. This is just clickbait.
I really hate this fucking trend of them putting dedicated Netflix and Hulu buttons on remote controls. I refuse to buy anything with this "Feature". You absolutely cannot avoid advertising on every...single...fucking...thing.
At 99$ the Google TV streamer better not have ads on the launcher
Press 🇽 for doubt.
It will lol. Just got an apple tv for my new tv instead of Google cause on my Google TV devices I have shit like Burger King ads.
They didn’t really kill it off. They just updated it and changed the name.
And made it less affordable and less portable. Unfortunate, at least I still have the HD model for when I travel.
I wouldn't see how the new model is the updated version of the Chromecast, I don't see myself carrying that thing to every hotel I stay in.
Sure, my tv has built in apps for all that shit, but they're slow as frozen molasses. It would take me minutes to scroll to the bottom of my YouTube subscriptions, and there were only 90 of them.
My in-laws internal player (on a brand new tbv) kept having codec errors (digital static) in hd broadcasts, so we bought them one too.
why is anyone surprised considering they already replaced it with the superior google tv with chromecast like years ago