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Comment by deelowe | Hacker News Reader

Huh? What about all the nexus devices or the Chromecast?

I wouldn't exactly call the Chromecast a win from a performance stand point (I'm not sure about their sales).

It rarely works as intended. It is constantly freezing and losing connection between devices. For me, Airplay works 10x better and the stream is much smoother (both devices are on the same network).

What about them? Have you ever peeked into how much market share do they have? Let me guess, no. And Chromecast? Nobody knows what that is aside from geeks obsessed with Google.

Chromecast is currently the 2nd best seller product on Amazon in the Electronics category, having recently dropped from 1st where it stayed for months. On what exactly do you base the idea that nobody knows what it is?

On the basis that Apple is cool.

If you compare the reach of AirPlay against the reach of Chromecast there's a difference of at least TWO orders of magnitude; that's my basis. And I'm not an apple fanboy (gohrt), I'm more of a reality fanboy.

AirPlay is not a device, it's a technology implemented by multiple devices, and it's four years old (compared to Chromecast, which is barely one). Comparing the two directly is nonsensical.

If that's enough to make Google a consumer products company then iAd is enough to make Apple an advertising company.

did google made any of the nexus devices? They are a special model of mobile companies like LG and Samsung... so I don't think it counts.

Are there any official sales/revenue/margin/profit numbers for the Nexus devices or Chromecast announced by Google?

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