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Re:Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome by lowmess on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:14PM (#12383888)
Google Cast is the technology, Chromecast is the device. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Re:Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome by Frank2312 on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:17PM (#12383911)
At first, it was all Chromecast.

The API was even called the Chromecast API.

They changed it to Google Cast last March [0].

[0] http://www.techtimes.com/articles/143386/20160323/google-reb...

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Re:Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome by criley2 on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:21PM (#12383944)
The person said the device was still called Chromecast.

https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/chromecast/

https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/chromecast/tv/#?discover

Google is still branding the device as Chromecast and still heavily using the term in the marketing for the actual device.

Also, other companies make Google Cast supported hardware, such as the NVidia Shield.

https://shield.nvidia.com/blog/what-is-googlecast-chromecast

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Re:Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome by Frank2312 on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:32PM (#12384053)
I understood that.

I was just clarifying for obilgic by explaining that he wasn't mistaken until more recently when Google rebranded the API.

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