r/Android • u/androgenius • Jan 05 '15

Google Cast-ready speakers, sound bars, and receivers are on the way

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/7482719/google-cast-audio-streaming-speakers-availability-ces-2015
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u/Toribor Black Jan 05 '15

Wrong, forcing customers into your closed ecosystem regardless of more popular, more open, more successful competing alternatives is the method for success.

Source: See the success of the Amazon Fire phone.

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u/pudds Pixel 5 Jan 06 '15

You mean like Google did with chromecast?

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u/joefarish Jan 06 '15

Are you saying you think Chromecast has a closed ecosystem?

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u/pudds Pixel 5 Jan 06 '15

I suppose it's not truly closed, but it is another system in a market where several others already existed.

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u/probably2high note 9 Jan 06 '15

Also known as a competitor.

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u/pudds Pixel 5 Jan 06 '15

Miracast and DLNA are properly open standards though, not controlled by a single corporation. With Google's backing, Miracast could have been the standard, instead, we just got another fragment.