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July 27, 2013 09:00 pm GMT
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Gillmor Gang: Christmas in July
The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor celebrate Google's gift to StreamTV. ChromeCast is cheap, small, simple, and extensible, just in time to kickoff the run up to Apple's big move to the Big Screen. It's a win-win for everybody involved, except maybe Microsoft and its XBox offering. Suddenly 3 screens and the cloud has shrunk to 2, or maybe 1.It's no cakewalk for Google, who must navigate and resolve desktop and mobile OSes and native hardware only seen briefly held to the ear of Eric Schmidt. But Chromecast altering the landscape, making the new Nexus 7 into a peripheral controller for the TV rather than the other way around, will shake up Hollywood's world view just as Netflix is reprogramming our kids' attention from channels to apps.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/9gcZQUf8z_w/
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