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> an exceptionally well-liked and popular brand name I don't think so at all. I'm not sure if anyone I know outside of tech has ever even heard of Chromecast.
by crazygringo 2y ago
> an exceptionally well-liked and popular brand name
I don't think so at all. I'm not sure if anyone I know outside of tech has ever even heard of Chromecast. It was never super popular. While every single one of them knows what an Apple TV is, and they know what the Chrome browser is.
The replacement makes much more sense. It's just branded as Google, and what it does -- it's a TV streamer. The branding tells you that it's Google's version of an Apple TV, while "Chromecast" told you nothing except that maybe it had to do with a browser (which it didn't).
Chromecast was always a bizarre name to begin with, since it didn't really have anything to do with Chrome. Chrome wasn't necessary to use it, nor did it run Chrome for you.
- icholy 2y agoIn my circle everyone under the age of 40 knows what a Chromecast is.
- jessfyi 2y agoIf something that sells 100 million+ devices isn't "super popular", I don't know what is. And not even counting the millions of TVs that have it built-in (Hi-Sense, TCL, Samsung) the brand is pretty ubiquitous.
- afavour 2y agoThe brand has been "Google Cast" for a long time, though. None of the TVs with this stuff built in have mentioned "Chromecast" in a very long time.
- jessfyi 2y agoI was being generous and said "not even counting," but no despite the internal name change, most still maintain the "Chromecast Built-In" designation on their branding and sites which takes a mere second to Google and see.
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- lawgimenez 2y agoMy almost 70 year old parents knows what Chromecast is because we owned one before.
- sambeau 2y agoMost techie people I know have an Apple TV, most of the others have a Chromecast. I'm in the UK, I don't know if that makes a difference.