Apple TV adds support for Google Cast even as Netflix ditches the feature

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Apple is making it easier for Android users to ticker Apple TV contented connected the large screen. The institution connected Monday said the Apple TV app for Android volition present enactment Google Cast functionality, which lets users watercourse videos and audio straight to their TV.

The tech giant’s adoption of Google Cast signals its involvement successful making Apple TV a much competitory streaming work astatine a clip erstwhile the marketplace is seeing accrued consolidation. Netflix and Paramount are warring to get Warner Bros. Discovery, and Disney is preparing to merge Hulu into its ain streaming app.

The diagnostic is arriving conscionable aft Netflix quietly abandoned enactment for Google Cast successful its ain app, angering galore subscribers. Apple’s enactment for the diagnostic could perchance pull Android users upset by Netflix’s determination who take to determination their streaming dollars elsewhere.

Apple TV’s lineup of archetypal contented is smaller than what different streaming services offer, but it inactive features a fig of fashionable shows and films similar “Severance,” “Pluribus,” “The Studio,” “The Morning Show,” “Slow Horses,” and the caller summertime blockbuster, “F1.” For sports, Apple TV offers live-streamed “Friday Night Baseball” doubleheaders, positive Major League Soccer matches, and Formula 1 races successful the U.S.

To formed to their TV, users volition request to instal the Apple TV app from Google Play, which works connected smartphones, tablets, and foldables. Just pat the Cast icon successful the apical right.

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