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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by denzil_correa on Monday November 21, 2016 @05:48PM (#13009978)
> Chromecasts "just work" in the old Apple sense of the term: you plug it in, you find the thing you want to watch online that you want on your TV, press the button in Chrome and hey presto, you got your cat video on your OLED

I wish. Chromecast could not mirror or could not stream audio. Eventually, I was fed up and I bought an Apple TV.

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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by rictic on Monday November 21, 2016 @06:41PM (#13010345)
Couldn't mirror in what sense? I know that you can cast your entire screen from a desktop or from an Android. Unsure about iOS devices.
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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by duaneb on Monday November 21, 2016 @07:13PM (#13010515)
On iOS, chromecast support is up to the app. This means no streaming movies you got from Amazon or Apple. This kind of behavior might make sense from a service, but not from an appliance.

That said, chromecast has probably my favorite interface for interacting with the set-top box. I mourned moving on to the apple tv.

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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by denzil_correa on Monday November 21, 2016 @07:53PM (#13010722)
I couldn't mirror my MBP due to audio issues. Apparently, it is a known bug on MBPs.
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