• Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    The thing is, there are versions of all of these (Cast, any number of messaging clients) that have broader compatibility already. They just tend to be locked out of Apple’s ecosystem and Apple has its own versions that lock everyone else out of there’s.

    These systems would be so much more friendly for the consumer if everyone just worked together but this insistence on keeping these things siloed just makes it worse for literally everyone.

    Wanna share your video on the TV at my house? Oh you have an iPhone? Oh, Yeah your gallery can’t Cast. I want to share a video at yours? Oh, you have an Apple TV so I can’t Cast to it and Airplay doesn’t exist in my gallery or OS.

    This only hurts consumers. And the only people it’s helping is the manufacturers selling you Google TV/AppleTV via suckers that buy both.