Don't forget about shoving Shorts into faces of their paying Youtube Premium users without a toggle to permanently disable it. That will definitely outcompete TikTok any day now!
It's mindboggling that you can't cast Google Shorts to a Google Chromecast. My hypothesis is that because Chromecast casting is so buggy and unresponsive (compared to Bluetooth), swiping from one Short to another would be such a frustrating experience that they dare not enable it.
Dear God how annoying it is to use. Buggy, laggy, drops randomly ... still can't play videos from my computer in an easy way.
I forgot how bad Chromecast were since I last used it 5 years ago.
Really sad with the state of things.
Dunno why none used a T9 type of letter entering system. All remotes but one had number pads. It is really inconvenient to use "Smart" TVs.
So I went with the spare for a while.
And I remember that it was different back in early Nexus days - they had Miracast, but deliberately ripped it out.