Apple reportedly preps native support for Google Cast in iOS 27

retired

Great. AirPlay has been nothing but trouble for me. Doesn't work half the time, uses the wrong language channel, needs funky setup on my TV. And when I finally get it working and take out my phone to browse a website, it will replace whatever I was streaming to the TV with the ads on that website. I hope Google Cast will be better.

Argonaut998

10 years too late.

olyjohn

Can't we just have a standard for this stupid shit already? How many years is it going to take before we can just cast to a goddamn screen. This would have been figured out years ago if there was any actual competition, and Google and Apple didn't prevent 3rd party implementations.

yoshuaw

I'm personally quite excited for Matter Casting. I haven't actually looked into the details of casting protocol itself, but I've been really enjoying my Matter devices at home and would love for my screens and speakers to integrate with the standard as well.

Sarkie

Is this European Union related?

vsgherzi

Air play has been super solid for me but I love to see solid interop! Big news for the chrome stick users!

dlcarrier

There's three common methods for wireless screen local sharing: • Miracast, from the Wi-Fi Alliance, an open and free standard that works reliably, without a need to even have a local Wi-Fi network, despite being developed by an organization who's entire purpose is to promote Wi-Fi equipment • Google Cast, a proprietary protocol from Google, requires a common access point connection to share a screen, and it often takes multiple attempts, for it to load a shared screen before it times out • AirPlay, a proprietary protocol from Apple, also requires a common access point connection to share a screen, but at least it loads reliably Miracast is probably the most supported by TVs, but Apple doesn't include it on their phones, and while many Android phone manufacturers do include support, Google doesn't on their Pixel phones. Because of that, it's likely the least used of the three, despite being the best.