At I/O 2024, "Chromecast built-in" was quietly rebranded to "Google Cast." Notably, this is reversing a branding change made in 2016...

Well, at least they aren’t outright throwing the functionality in the trash.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    26·
    6 months ago

    I’ve heard it’s because creating/reforming things rather than maintaining them is more valued at Google with their current company culture.

    • triptrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      6 months ago

      A friend who worked at Meta said pretty concisely, “You get rewarded for coming up with something new, not improving something old.”

      • exanime@lemmy.todayEnglish
        8·
        6 months ago

        Proving once again that it’s usually management that tanks a company… Yet they get the golden parachutes

      • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        That would make sense why there’s more features than there used to be, but it’s just worse in every way. Same as Google, Reddit, Microsoft, etc…

    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      Exactly. The Google culture nowadays is a lot of climbers cynically trying to sell new ideas and then abandoning them once they get promo. It didn’t always used to be like that.

    • cybersandwich@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      6 months ago

      It’s pretty common across most orgs really. Google just seems to have perfected it. Which might actually mean they’ll kill it soon!