> But there's several comments in the Koushik Dutta thread from people who "spoke to Googlers" To be fair, I only see the one comment mentioning that and it's

> But there's several comments in the Koushik Dutta thread from people who "spoke to Googlers" To be fair, I only see the one comment mentioning that and it's by Koushik Dutta himself, so I don't think that really says anything beyond what's in the initial post. In fact, there is a googler in there asking for patience, though it doesn't appear that he actually works on chromecast. On the side of patience, it doesn't make much sense to make an SDK and tell people about it if making apps is going to be more or less invitation only. And it would be pretty weird to allow arbitrary browser tab broadcasting but not arbitrary app broadcasting, since it's media that's (ridiculously) licensed to be played in a browser but not on a TV that made all the media companies go apoplectic with google TV in the first place. All that said, I agree that cat and mouse games with potential device hackers is super lame and makes it not that much more valuable than an hdmi cord. On the one hand, it's (sort of) wireless hdmi, on the other, it only works with a tiny list of whitelisted apps! Not exactly a glowing advertising slogan.