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Re:Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving ... by old-gregg on Friday April 14, 2017 @09:00PM (#14118710)
Hold on, how do you let 80% of people to control Chromecast? If anything's it's not controllable by anyone by default because nobody happens to lug around a laptop with a pre-installed chrome extension. I haven't used Android for a while, but on my last Nexus phone Chromecast wasn't useful for anything other than Youtube.
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Re:Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving ... by mcpherrinm on Friday April 14, 2017 @09:26PM (#14118808)
Android + Chromecast integration is really great. You can get automatic playback controls if you're on the same wifi or in near proximity.

Everything I use for media support Chromecast on both iOS and Android (Spotify, Pocket Casts, Netflix, Youtube, etc) Chrome supports to videos in websites. I'd say most times I go to see if an android app has Chromecast support, it does. I'm not sure how much that's true of iOS apps. I'd guess it's less.

Google home integration is really nice too. I can tell Google home to play something on the Chromecast.

I've worked in places with Macs + Apple TVs in conference rooms, and Airplay was definitely more annoying than Chromecasting.

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Re:Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving ... by ghaff on Friday April 14, 2017 @09:14PM (#14118773)
For things like Netflix or HBO, I just cast from the iPhone app.
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Re:Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving ... by WrtCdEvrydy on Saturday April 15, 2017 @03:02AM (#14119733)
Localcast on Android allows you cast any video stream (on a browser), or any local file or any chrome tab. So you can stream a presentation from Google Drive.
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Re:Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving ... by hueving on Saturday April 15, 2017 @02:38AM (#14119687)
>I haven't used Android for a while

Maybe you should have considered that before engaging in a conversation about devices tightly integrated with Android.

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Re:Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving ... by Godel_unicode on Saturday April 15, 2017 @03:45AM (#14119812)
Fwiw, all the major apps which have Chromecast support on Android also have it on iOS as well.
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