• MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      The dongle still works. They reached market saturation with people who just want a dongle. They can’t realistically be expected to produce these forever.

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      Classic Lemmy. Point out that these are not charities and companies can’t keep producing niche products that you aren’t buying but maybe potentially want to buy someday and get thrown down votes. Down votes without a response tell me you’re just butthurt about the truth.

      Sorry folks whether you like it or not it’s the truth. Companies like to sell things and if these were actually being bought enough to make a profit they wouldn’t be discontinued. Your TV probably has this feature built in now. Want another? Buy it second hand, the market is absolutely flooded with these second hand because they’re just collecting dust in cabinets. If Google kept making these they’d just end up as unsold stock in a landfill.

      Your existing chromecast dongle will continue to connect because Google needs chromecast the protocol to continue to work to compete with Apples Airplay. It’s the same reason the Chromecast Audio dongle continues to work 5 years after it’s end of life.

      If you want to make sure you have them forever buy up your local second hand stock but otherwise no one has given a convincing argument why these need more e-waste getting produced at the factory.

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          4 months ago

          Facebook market place in my small town has dozens of these for less than $20. Why don’t you pick up a few of these and recycle our current supply instead of asking companies to produce more e waste incase we someday want to buy it.

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            The large used market exists because Google has been producing them. When Google stops producing them, that supply will dry up.

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              Lucky you, this is the perfect time to snatch up all the ones you say you need on the cheap.

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                I’m not going to buy something I don’t need right now. Especially when my buying it is denying it to someone else who wants it.

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                  Ok so just so we’re clear, you want Google to keep mass producing e waste that you and most of the world aren’t buying right now just in case someday you might want to buy another.

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                    They can reduce production to meet demand. Kickstarter and retro consoles have shown you can produce very small production runs at a profit.

                    But Google’s attitude with all products whether software or hardware is that if it isn’t a monopoly market share product, they cancel it.

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        Your existing chromecast dongle will continue to connect

        Will it, though?

        “Sorry this device is too old to support the newest software update. For your convenience we have bricked it. Please see your authorized dealer to purchase an upgraded device”

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          Sure, give me a single example where a chromecast device was taken off the chromecast protocol. Even their original Chromecast Audio device which was discontinued and taken out of production over 5 years ago still functions to this day.

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            Cast protocol is only one of the many many things that you can stream through a chromecast device.

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                It’s a remote controlled web browser. It supports stuff like Netflix because the DRM support is maintained. When that stops it will get Blurayed and old players will fail to play new content

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        I mean I’d hope so because eventually this one I have won’t work like the previous one so I’d like a similar product when that happens not this 99 dollar box thing. I guess I hope someone else will continue making cheap dongles I think walmart has their own thing