{"id":44,"date":"2013-08-08T07:57:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T07:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamieryan.co.uk\/?p=44"},"modified":"2017-11-15T08:12:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:12:11","slug":"like-it-or-not-chromecast-is-a-shitshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamieryan.co.uk\/post\/56468467672\/like-it-or-not-chromecast-is-a-shitshow","title":{"rendered":"Like It Or Not, Chromecast Is A Shitshow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked me earlier this evening why I\u2019ve been so negative about Google\u2019s new Chromecast product and they also said they thought I was being unfair. I\u2019m going to list the reasons it just keeps going from bad to worse.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google said during the event that the Chromecast didn\u2019t need wires or clutter.\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">They completely failed to mention that<\/span>\u00a0it needs to be plugged into the wall or the TV via MicroUSB It needs the same number of cables as Miracast and Apple TV.\u00a0<strong>EDIT:\u00a0<\/strong>The presenter Mario did state it needs USB power, but all the subsequent demos, slides and publicity shots show the device without this cable.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s US only just now<\/li>\n<li>If you buy one and you only have an iOS device you\u2019re out of luckbecause they haven\u2019t bothered with the setup pages for that yet.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s no iOS apps that support it yet anyway, even Googles own. Does Google mention this anywhere on their site? Nope<\/li>\n<li>iOS developers will need\u00a0<strong>written<\/strong>\u00a0permission from Google to ship an app that uses the Chromecast SDK. That doesn\u2019t strike me as open.<\/li>\n<li>The Netflix offer is already over. Google claim it\u2019s due to \u201coverwhelming demand\u201d but that\u2019s a poor excuse. Expecting your product to do shittier than it did is a really defeatist attitude. Furthermore, Google at no point previously mentioned that the Netflix offer was for a very limited time or quantity.<\/li>\n<li>It isn\u2019t actually streaming anything from the device, all the phone\/tablet does is tells the chrome browser built in to the stick what website\/video to play. Only certain local videos will play as codec support is limited.<\/li>\n<li>It doesn\u2019t work as a standalone product in any way. If you don\u2019t have a phone\/laptop\/tablet handy, tough<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing, I was only a little down on it yesterday. Today, I\u2019ve personally lost all faith in the product and the developers I spoke to yesterday who wanted to implement this have decided against it today.<\/p>\n<p>The excuses are the same as they always are when it comes to Google. It\u2019s cheap\/free so it\u2019s not a big deal and it\u2019ll \u201cget better\u201d. If these excuses sound familiar it\u2019s because they\u2019ve been used on developers and customers before. I\u2019ve heard \u201cIt\u2019ll get better\u201d about Google TV, Nexus Q, Tablet Apps, Google Drive, Google+ etc. The \u201cit\u2019s cheap\u201d excuse is used to defend poor Nexus 4 and 7 hardware as well.<\/p>\n<p>I have but one question: When will the industry stop giving Google a pass on their failures? When will they be held accountable in the press for their mistakes in the same manners as Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry? Being cheap isn\u2019t an excuse for mediocre quality control and \u201cit\u2019ll get better\u201d or \u201cit\u2019s got future potential\u201d isn\u2019t something anyone else seems to benefit from. Will Apple get a pass because iCloud will \u201cget better\u201d? Will Microsoft get a pass because Windows 8 has \u201cfuture potential\u201d? We all know the answer.<\/p>\n<p>The Chromecast is already here and it\u2019s already been paid for by the customers and right now, it\u2019s a shitshow. Google already has your money, there\u2019s no incentive for them to make it any better and their history with these matters doesn\u2019t hold them in good stead, either<\/p>\n<p>Chromecast was only launched yesterday and we\u2019ve already found out a ton of negative points. It\u2019s got a\u00a0<strong>long<\/strong>\u00a0way to go before it\u2019s a good product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked me earlier this evening why I\u2019ve been so negative about Google\u2019s new Chromecast product and they also said they thought I was being unfair. I\u2019m going to list the reasons it just keeps going from bad to worse. Google said during the event that the Chromecast didn\u2019t need wires or clutter.\u00a0They completely failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieryan.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieryan.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieryan.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieryan.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieryan.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jamieryan.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieryan.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieryan.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieryan.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieryan.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}