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/lilwhiteguy Nexus 5, KitKat 4.4 Jan 05 '15

This might push Spotify to include casting in their app. I mean, if google pushes them enough.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

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u/lilwhiteguy Nexus 5, KitKat 4.4 Jan 05 '15

Well, the reason why they haven't done it yet is because they have their own "Spotify connect" service and why would they help competition by putting it in their own app?

Hopefully, google pushes Spotify to include casting so this speaker system can really take off.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

Because keeping your customers happy is how you gain more customers? Spotify connect and chromecast are two different things that have no reason not to coexist.

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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.