This is a depressingly plausible prediction.

lulz its as if you didn’t even read the article!

I’m willing to bet they DO have that, but the engineering nerds have more sway than them and overrule whatever objections and guidance the marketing nerds give them.

RIP, I hope to find one in the CPO used market soon.

This answers nothing!

/s?

I’LL TAKE 8.

Anything with a remote if they’re terrible at using their smartphones.

Agreed, there are less than approved of apps that can be used to fill in content provider gaps (seriously, networks and studios, I will GLADLY play for this stuff if you would let me) that do not have cast support. In that case I just mirror my tablet/phone through Chromecast and problem is solved.

You’re creating a wifi hotspot, not a network. For this to work, you would need to have an amp converter, have a wireless router attached to it, wait for it to bootup every time you started the car, then hook up the phone and Chromecast to it.

Nope, Chromecasts are based on wifi networks. Stick with bluetooth!

Possible, but I think you would need to use a laptop/desktop and Chrome browser to achieve the split and even then I’m not sure how you would work out the CCAudio aspect of it. You could cast the browser tab for video and then have an audio out from the computer to a BT dongle attached to the amp/mixing board. Also…

Agreed. I’m mostly hoping for 5ghz support.

As simply as I can put it:

I tried firing it up and Windows XP tried to load up about 10000000 critical updates. Booted it down and threw it back into the box. XP is positively ancient looking.

I recently moved and trashed actual unused, still shrink wrapped stacks of 250mb zip cartridges? discs? that were hiding in storage since Y2K.

Acer Netbook circa 2008. Smart phones were still klunky crapfests, tablets were but a sparkle in a top secret lab in Cupertino, and full sized laptops were heavy pains in the asses for constant travel if you didn’t need all the firepower of a Core 2 duo. So when the first wave of netbooks came out I jumped on the…

AKA “Chinese Poker” which I think is incorrect, but that’s what we called it as growing up in the 5 boros.

RUFUS!

Truth.