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Why Google decided now’s the time to move on from Chromecast

Google wanted to make a more premium streaming device.

(Walmart’s Onn brand is filling out the under-$50 zone quite well with multiple Google TV streamers, and Amazon and Roku both sell devices priced in that same impulse-buy territory.) So Google decided to focus on a higher-end device, and it viewed the Nvidia Shield — long praised as the most performant Android TV streamer — as something to strive towards. Despite all these forward-facing features, one of Govil-Pai’s favorite new additions is among the simplest: the Google TV Streamer has a remote finder button on the back of the unit.

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