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`Here's to five years of Chromecast
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`Jul 24,2018 |
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`3 min read
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`Not long ago, if you wanted to watch video online with your friends and family, your easiest option might have
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`been to huddle around a laptop screen. If you wanted to watch on your TV, you had to search using your
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`remote via a clunky on-screen keyboard-—or if you were really enterprising, you'd figure out how to connect
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`your computer to your TV. It wasn't easy.
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`Then, five years ago today, we introduced Chromecast to make watching streaming videos on your TV easy as
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`pie. Just by opening one of thousands of content app on your phone, casting and pressing play, you can enjoy
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`watching your favorite TVs, movies and more. Today, you can use Chromecastto stream thousands of apps
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`to your big screen, and we continue to make it easier to watch your favorite show.
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`To celebrate Chromecast's fifth birthday, we asked Googler Majd Bakar—the first Chromecast engineer—and
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`his wife, Carla Hindie—the inspiration behind Chromecast—totell us the backstory behind our first and most
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`popular consumer hardwaredevice. Here's what the couple had to say:
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`How did Chromecast comeinto fruition?
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`Majd: This is back around 2008 or so. Carla was always looking for new stuff to watch, and | noticed how she
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`went about starting a movie. She would go to her laptop to pick a movie using a streaming service, add it to
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`her queue, and then close the laptop. Then, she’d open the movie on her gaming device. | used to watch her
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`and think, “This is really hard ... Why do you do that?”
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`Carla: Basically, back then TV interfaces were hard to use. The search was difficult and very slow.
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`Majd: | said, “Okay. Let's build an interface where everything happens on the phone,and only the video plays
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`on the large screen. And let’s make the hardwaredevice that enables this experience as small and as hidden
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`as possible.”
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`Do youthink it’s true that some of the best tech ideas come from non-tech people?
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`Majd:
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`| think great ideas can come from anybody—you don't need to be a tech person to think of the next best
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`gadget. What's important is creating a product that actually solves a problem that people encounter, and
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`makesa positive differencein their lives. People outside of tech also want solutions that are simple and easy
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`to use, rather than complex—so their ideas may result in better products with more mass appeal.
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`How long did it take to create Chromecast?
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`Majd: | joined Google in 2011 to create products that would change how people used their TVs. | pitched this
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`idea and everyone got excited aboutit. It was 2012 when wereally got started, and we launched Chromecast
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`in July 2013.
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`How did you feel whenthe productfinally launched?
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`Majd: The first time | brought a beta Chromecast home,it was in late 2012. | plugged it into my TV and
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`showed Carla.
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`Carla: He actually wanted me to set it up so that he could seeif it was going to be easy for everyone. I'ma
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`huge complainer if there’s anything | don’t get quickly, and | don't like reading manuals. So he gaveit to me and
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`said, “Here, you set it up.” And it was very easy. It was a big, exciting evening in our house.
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`Majd: We sat down and watched YouTube, becausethe first thing we had working on Chromecast was
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`YouTube. So | said, “Okay, let’s watch a couple of YouTube videos.” We watched YouTube videos for three and
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`a half hours until 1 a.m. At the end ofit, she said, "You've been working on this for a year, and | had no idea
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`what a big difference this small device would make.”
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`What’s your favorite Chromecast feature?
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`Carla: | like that we can actually go into anybody’s house who has a Chromecast,log into their network and
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`use it.
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`Majd: Yeah, | think that’s really one of the most powerful features that we have. To me, the ease of use is what
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`| like. We had an advertisement that said it was so easy for everyone to use. The first time | saw that ad, | had
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`tears In my eyes.
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`And on Chromecast’s birthday, how doesit feel?
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`Majd: | am very proud of the team. | feel lucky to be able to work on something like this—it’s very humbling to
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`pitch something and seeit from the beginning. When westarted, we were three people, and now we have
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`hundreds of people working on Chromecast and other hardware products for the home. That is a huge effort.
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`We, as a team, made an impactin this space.
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`Thanks to Majd and Carla sharing the story of Chromecast—and thanks, Chromecast,for letting all of us
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`stream with ease.
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