Hacker News Reader

Miracast is a standard, not a product. There is nothing wrong with selling a Miracast device, however this particular device is blatant Chromecast rip-off, designwise.

Ah, I hadn't seen the visual of the product (Amazon requires JavaScript to load product images).

The product quite literally has the chrome logo slapped on the it.

It's close. The slants in the circle swirl thing point the opposite direction.

> Google's Android phones dropped Miracast support around the time Chromecast came out,

Miracast support was “dropped” only in that it, like Chromecast support, was provided by the Google Cast (now Google Home) app, not the base OS.

I was very excited about Miracast when I first came across it in 2012, but all the implementations were crap, and the Chromecast blew it out of the water when it came to ease of use.