Well, I don't agree with what Google is doing assuming it's intentional.
But,
1)It's $35. I spend more than that on a week's worth of lunch.
2)I bet cyanogenmod will make an appearance. I'm just buying Chromecast for the hardware.
Chromecast update breaks AllCast
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Re: Chromecast update breaks AllCast
#22Is the new motto being Do Evil ?
Not sure how you went from "an update that broke undocumented functionality" to "evil".
It's hyperbole, a pretty common tool when expressing yourself.
It's not a long way from Google's motto "Don't be evil" to "Be evil" and it doesn't take that much imagination to figure out what he meant.
On the other hand, acting obtuse is rarely funny.
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#23If I were somebody with a Chromebook that still had ChromeOS installed, I would be very very concerned right now. If you don't control your device's software updates, then the device is not yours. It is as simple as that.
It's the same with android. They made adblock stop working several times, slowly tightening restrictions on it. And OS updates remove root, which will break a slew of apps.
It doesn't feel like your device unless you install something like CM.
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#24If I were somebody with a Chromebook that still had ChromeOS installed, I would be very very concerned right now. If you don't control your device's software updates, then the device is not yours. It is as simple as that.
What do you expect from Google? I have rapidly lost respect for this company in last couple of years.
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#25Well, I don't agree with what Google is doing assuming it's intentional. But, 1)It's $35. I spend more than that on a week's worth of lunch. 2)I bet cyanogenmod will make an appearance. I'm just buying Chromecast for the hardware.
> 1)It's $35. I spend more than that on a week's worth of lunch.
That's not a real argument though is it? The issue is that Google are intentionally trying to further a closed ecosystem and the people who don't want to be part of it/their system.
It doesn't matter if the price is $0 or $500, if Google has an anti-freedom/choice ideology then there will be pushback on that. That pushback might be technological (e.g. CM mod) or political (EFF et al) but it will occur.
The price point is just a distraction that I'd suggest people don't get drawn into. Google doesn't owe you anything, but you also don't owe Google anything, and are entitled to bitch if you're unhappy with the amount of choice you have.
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#26Seems like 35$ for this device was too good to be true. Hopefully there will be some custom ROM sometime, anyway i wanted to get one soon, but now i will hold out as streaming anything to my TV would have been the killer feature for me.
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#27https://developers.google.com/cast/release-notes > Warning: The current Google Cast SDK is a preview SDK intended for development and testing purposes only, not for production apps. Google may change this SDK significantly prior to the official release of the Google Cast SDK. We strongly recommend that you do not publicly distribute any application using this preview SDK, as this preview SDK will no longer be support…
Exactly. I think we're a long way from malice here, or even incompetence. That the ChromeCast has an SDK at all at this stage seems like a pleasant surprise; I feel certain the API will become more stable over time. If this were truly intended to be a closed device, unavailable for use except by specific media partners, why would there be a public SDK at all?
In the absence of a statement from Google that the ChromeCast by design doesn't support the functionality used by this or other video streaming apps, I'd consider it premature to assume intentional breakage.
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#28https://developers.google.com/cast/release-notes > Warning: The current Google Cast SDK is a preview SDK intended for development and testing purposes only, not for production apps. Google may change this SDK significantly prior to the official release of the Google Cast SDK. We strongly recommend that you do not publicly distribute any application using this preview SDK, as this preview SDK will no longer be support…
Do you think the intent of the post is to complain about SDK compatibility ? :)
I think he was saying that this is a case of Hanlon's razor[1]. i.e. this situation could be easily explained by simple api churn (and the fact that the OP was using an undocumented api), so it may not be appropriate to ascribe malice without evidence.
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#29Well this device has gone from a "must have" to a "no thanks".