• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    At least in Google case, chromecasts are super cheap. I have bought several for relatives to make the above scenarios easy

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      11 months ago

      It is, but it’s still an extra device that covers one of the options. It’d be obviously better if one device just supported a shared protocol either phone could use.

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        11 months ago

        Absolutely agree. At least in chromecasts case, it’s an open protocol, and Apple apps can choose to integrate with it. But of course, none of the 1st party apps do