• bleppy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    So Pixel phones don’t support DP alt mode via USB-C, and Samsung phones don’t support Chromecast. Are they holding back these features for when they run out of ideas to sell new phones? I can’t think of any technical reason why we can’t have both.

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      1 year ago

      Well, yes, it’s a business decision. Google wanted to push their Chromecast devices so they made them use proprietary Google Cast protocol and removed Miracast from Android (both phones and TVs). They later added Chromecast/Google Cast to Android TV but it is still not supported on other platforms. Samsung on the other hand had their own TVs which don’t use Android TV so they added Miracast back to their phones and removed Chromecast so that their consumers would buy Samsung TVs.