Sunday, July 28, 2013

Google's Chromecast has its roots in Android, not Chrome OS

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Having successfully managed to gain root access to Google's Chromecast dongle, the GTV Hacker team has identified that it runs a stripped-down version of Android taken from Google TV, not Chrome OS. Google had previously told The Verge that the Chromecast runs a variant of the web-focused operating system, describing it as "just a browser content shell."


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/28/4565386/googles-chromecast-android-not-chrome-os

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