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It's not clear to me what this means for Google TV, which, it seems, has long been a bastard stepchild in the Google consumer product family. If I both wanted
by apendleton 13y ago
It's not clear to me what this means for Google TV, which, it seems, has long been a bastard stepchild in the Google consumer product family. If I both wanted to play games and take advantage of Chromecast apps on my other devices, I guess I would need both? Or maybe there will be a Chromecast receiver app for Google TV?
More broadly, this seems symptomatic of the continued tension between the Chrome and Android platforms within Google, since this is yet another space where they're stepping on each other's toes without obvious rhyme or reason from a consumer perspective.
- bane 13y agoI wasn't even aware Google TV was still a "thing". I had assumed the product line was long dead.
- apendleton 13y agoThird-party manufacturers are still making devices (both set-top boxes and TVs) on top of it, and new features were announced for it at this past Google IO. But it's barely alive, I think.
- tcoppi 13y agoI agree, being one of the maybe 12 people in the world that actually uses a Google TV and likes it, I hoped they would have at least mentioned something about it, even that they were killing it. That being said, I still bought a chromecast because it looks friggin sweet.