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Re:Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a ... by kuschku on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:21PM (#16510299)
Simply by the fact that none of these attempted to build a chromecast receiver?

There were three groups working on such a receiver, Google with their Chromecast, Amazon wanted to support receiving chromecasts with the fire TV, and open source projects trying to receive chromecasts on the raspberry pi.

Google changed that protocol a few times, only Google's products can receive chromecast streams today.

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Re:Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a ... by foepys on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:30PM (#16510363)
Oh, on the receiver side. So Amazon pulled Chromecast support from their apps because they couldn't get reliable Cast protocol support on their FireTV. Thank you for clarifying.
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Re:Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a ... by kuschku on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:46PM (#16510456)
Yes, that's basically it — they couldn't get reliable cast support to receive on the FireTV, and they couldn't reliably send from the Kindles due to Google's protocol changes.

And that was already after Google's anticompetitive actions against the Kindle Fire devices.

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