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My understanding is that to implement the Cast SDK in an Android or iOS app, one must link a closed source binary. On Android, it's Google Play Services, while
by firloop 11y ago
My understanding is that to implement the Cast SDK in an Android or iOS app, one must link a closed source binary.
On Android, it's Google Play Services, while on iOS it's a custom Cast binary that Google provides to developers to link in their apps. Due to this, almost all apps that support Cast are on iOS, Android, or Chrome because closed-source binaries are only distributed for those platforms.
Amazon would have to make special arrangements to include the Cast SDK on Fire OS. I still don't think this excuses them from bringing a proper Amazon Prime Video app with Cast support to iOS and (Google's) Android.