Re:We’re ending production of Chromecast
by lern_too_spel on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @12:24PM
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DLNA is meant to play media from a media server on a home network. It doesn't make sense for Internet services to implement DMS. The relevant standard for casting using web protocols is DIAL.
I vaguely remember DLNA... Which is to say, I remember it barely working at best and mostly just wasting a lot of time debugging configuration and network nonsense.
Arguably the biggest advantage of Chromecast was just not having to deal with all that.
Chromecast also allowed you to stream Netflix... I'm not sure DLNA ever got to that point.
Now that they are at risk of being split up for their monopoly, and as they lose an Antitrust case for their search monopoly, they are probably looking to kill off the Chrome brand because Chrome is how they entirely dominated the web, warping it to their standards and killing more open standards in favor of their Proprietary technology.