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I'm guessing it's related to one of the following: Google Fiber, the Kickstarter Android game consoles (and/or hackers getting games running on the Nexus Q "dev
by drivebyacct2 14y ago
I'm guessing it's related to one of the following: Google Fiber, the Kickstarter Android game consoles (and/or hackers getting games running on the Nexus Q "dev units"), the high availability of cheap media-pc-on-a-usb-stick Android devices.
(I presume they really are improving, didn't mean to imply they were running or anything).
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoSimpler: it's more limited than the two existing devices closest to it: the Sonos and Apple TV (in the context of Apple's ecosystem), and three times the price of the latter. A third-party API of some kind would go a long way towards making that price tag much easier to swallow.
- myko 14y agoA third party API? Isn't it a full fledged Android device?
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoTechnically. Out of the box, all it's capable of doing is streaming music and video from Play and YouTube.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoThat's kind of my point. I think they saw what "hackers" did with it and saw the reactions and put two and two together. I think if they tossed the amp and opened it up as a Google TV like device, it would pair great with Fiber, Nexus 7 and would give them a Google TV device that is similar to their Nexus devices in terms of their level of control, etc.
- fpgeek 14y agoAbsolutely. It was hard to see why you'd get a Nexus Q instead of (or even with), for example, a Vizio Co-Star. If it were "Nexus TV" (with a lower price point), though, it becomes much more interesting.