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The Chromecast is a media streaming device from Google, allowing you to play your favorite content from Netflix, Spotify, Google Play Music, Pandora, and countless other services on your television. The device is a small HDMI dongle, and retails for $35.

10 years later, Google’s Chromecast tech leads to a $339 million patent lawsuit

Original first-generation 2013 Chromecast updates

The Chromecast is arguably one of Google’s best pieces of hardware, and best software platforms too. The flexible standard makes it easy to send content from one device to another, whether that be audio, video, or still images. And Chromecast has now been in our lives for 10 years, but a new patent lawsuit against Google alleges that the company stole the idea for the tech.

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Do you want Google to keep selling the Cast OS-powered Chromecast?

As we reported at the start of this year, a tentatively named “Chromecast HD with Google TV” is in the works. It will presumably be cheaper than the existing $49.99 dongle and be closer in price to the $29.99 Chromecast. Once that new device launches, one interesting question is whether Google will still sell a streamer that is powered by its original Cast operating system?

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