• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Meh. Airplay is like CarPlay. Modern TVs support both Android and iOS casting. Just like most modern cars support both Android Auto and CarPlay.

    There are apps you can get for devices that allow you to AirPlay to them as well if they don’t already support it. I got one to AirPlay to my Xbox for example.

    I wouldn’t mind an open standard for casting. But both Google Cast and Airplay are currently proprietary. Maybe something will come out of the Matter standards board that everyone can adopt.

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      11 months ago

      Meh. Airplay is like CarPlay. Modern TVs support both Android and iOS casting. Just like most modern cars support both Android Auto and CarPlay.

      The key is, most. Not all. And there are still two standards. It is taking more development time and complexity to support this, and therefore, not all car manufacturers nor all TV manufacturers are doing this. It’s still a problem, you’re just arguing semantics of whether it’s the consumers problem or the middle-man’s problem who will end up thrusting the cost upon the consumer anyway.

      Either way, it’s extra dev time, complexity, room for things to go wrong, things to think about, different interfaces on different devices, etc. This just doesn’t need to exist and provides no benefit to the end consumer.

      There are apps you can get for devices that allow you to AirPlay to them as well if they don’t already support it. I got one to AirPlay to my Xbox for example.

      Of course there are. There have been for years. But again, see above. This is just more complexity and shit for you to deal with. And another app for someone to manage. And another thing to go wrong. And something else that needs to be updated when Apple devices to change something.

      It’s not beneficial to you. At all. It’s another stumbling block. You can argue about it’s size, but it literally gives zero benefit to the consumer and has no need to exist.