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Sadly while my Nexus 4 could cast to almost any TV 7 years ago, Google had to decide to remove support from stock Android in 2015 and try to shove Chromecast do
by hocuspocus 7y ago
Sadly while my Nexus 4 could cast to almost any TV 7 years ago, Google had to decide to remove support from stock Android in 2015 and try to shove Chromecast down our throats instead.
It seems to work well from Windows 10 though.
- jsight 7y agoIts irritating how far we've gone away from standards. At least in the past there were efforts to push open solutions, but those seem to be steadily fading away.
- nitrogen 7y agoSamsung still has Smart View; not sure what protocol(s) it uses, but it seems fairly general. One of the things that kills these common standards is that every company has to tack on its own obscuring trade name. DLNA, HDMI-CEC, probably others I can't remember have all had this. It's kind of a wonder that SMTP managed to be known as just "email", but even that is largely eroded into branded experiences.
- BiteCode_dev 7y agoThey noticed apple mostly got praises and money for it, while going standards means competition and losing control. Both bring angry geeks for different reasons, but as long as most people reward them for being locked up in a closed ecosystem, I don't see why they would change.
- whoopdedo 7y agoThe wooden spike through the heart of screen mirroring is DRM. Publishers were aghast that devices were "sharing" video feeds without having to pay per-viewer licensing fees back to them. Even when using supposedly compatible devices, like a Samsung flagship phone casting to a Samsung smart TV, you have no guarantee that the app won't block the streaming to protect their subscription model.