> Amazon fired the first salvo by dropping the Chromecast a few years back ...after Google intentionally changed the Chromecast protocol almost weekly to force

> Amazon fired the first salvo by dropping the Chromecast a few years back ...after Google intentionally changed the Chromecast protocol almost weekly to force app developers to use their proprietary library, and to prevent third-party implementations of the library from working. There’s dozens of open source implementations of the protocol from that era left on GitHub, all abandoned over the constant changes that were purely done to prevent anyone (Amazon or open source devs) from streaming to Chromecast, or receiving streams, without going through Google’s proprietary library.