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>The Nexus devices So you can buy used or refurbished phones from some third party retailer, great, but you cannot buy a Pixel or Chromecast or Google Home. A
by DerfNet 9y ago
>The Nexus devices
So you can buy used or refurbished phones from some third party retailer, great, but you cannot buy a Pixel or Chromecast or Google Home.
Also, is it Google preventing Amazon from getting Prime onto their devices? I've always been under the impression this was Amazon's choice, as it helps them move more Fire sticks.
- kuschku 9y ago> So you can buy used or refurbished phones from some third party retailer, great, but you cannot buy a Pixel or Chromecast or Google Home. New nexus devices are still for sale. > Also, is it Google preventing Amazon from getting Prime onto their devices? I've always been under the impression this was Amazon's choice, as it helps them move more Fire sticks. Correct, Google requires Play Services nowadays for Chromecast. Amazon Prime Video and Netflix both used to support Chromecast on Kindle devices and elsewhere, Google disabled that functionality, and Amazon removed it elsewhere. Fire sticks are sold at a loss.
- scarface74 9y agoCorrect, Google requires Play Services nowadays for Chromecast. How does that explain ChromeCast support for third party IOS apps?
- kuschku 9y agoGoogle has a separate, proprietary, obfuscated, binary for iOS. Amazon can’t exactly use this on their Kindle devices.
- scarface74 9y agoGood point. I remember Marco Arment said he wouldn’t add ChromeCast support to OverCast because he wasn’t comfortable adding a third party binary blob to his code.