Note the lack of spotify support. It's turning into a bit of a showdown between players like google cast and spotify connect.
There will definitely be a small market in building devices which can serve as bridges between the standards.
There will definitely be a small market in building devices which can serve as bridges between the standards.
As a society we are capable of making software and hardware that interoperate among manufacturers - email and HTTP are good examples. We could be a far more technologically advanced world if capitalism didn't encourage companies to create competing closed-source protocols that only benefit the companies themselves, to the detriment of everyone else.
On balance I believe it's a net positive to have some competing standards for a while as we figure out what works best. I do hope we can arrive at some interoperable standards, or we can at least mitigate the spread via low cost adapter devices.