My whole house audio runs off a product Google no longer makes unfortunately (Chromecast audios).
There’s, no like-for-like new version, and no good replacement that I’ve found. Thankfully, this was a fixable problem and they fixed it vs. Just EOLing them.
It’s amazing how they basically perfected something, and then just dropped it in the trash.
I know it’s easy to explain that they basically sold them to everyone who wanted one. But it really feels like a device that/situation that a company like Google could maintain as a good will thing. As a standard. As a protocol.
One theory I’ve heard here is that Patent law is the culprit in this case: Sonos has a patent they’re trolling and Google had to stop infringing by discontinuing new devices.
“Buy new Chromecasts.”
Thats the vibe. In this case, it seems like they get more value from the signals they interpret from the devices already out there.
In a better world, these devices (and maybe even the Chromecast protocol) would be open sourced
Except that, despite their usual MO, they did actually fix it so people didn’t need to buy new devices.
My whole house audio runs off a product Google no longer makes unfortunately (Chromecast audios).
There’s, no like-for-like new version, and no good replacement that I’ve found. Thankfully, this was a fixable problem and they fixed it vs. Just EOLing them.
It’s amazing how they basically perfected something, and then just dropped it in the trash.
I know it’s easy to explain that they basically sold them to everyone who wanted one. But it really feels like a device that/situation that a company like Google could maintain as a good will thing. As a standard. As a protocol.
That’s pretty much their MO though. If you look at their list of dead products, there’s a lot of quality products that canned for whatever reason.
One theory I’ve heard here is that Patent law is the culprit in this case: Sonos has a patent they’re trolling and Google had to stop infringing by discontinuing new devices.
I had some luck cobbling together a HiFiBerry with some speakers. It’s not the same thing, but it does show up like a streamable audio device.
It’s not super cheap though.
Can it stream with the “cast” button in Spotify or other apps?