Chromecast has been attracting the public since its appearance in 2013. It allows you to stream your favorite multimedia launched on connected devices from compatible browsers directly to your TV. This device allows non-smart TVs to view videos from the Internet.
So what is this feature that is missing?
The manufacturer forgot to set up the profile choice that it should have put in the Google Chromecast . Will we need this feature? The answer is yes ". This feature is really essential so that each member of the family who uses the Chromecast TV can have their favorite settings, multimedia favorites, etc.
Indeed, each member of the family is not supposed to each have a Google Chromecast key. It would have been very useful to have a profile choice option and to be able to use the same key for the whole family. It goes without saying that today's modern devices have this functionality, just to talk about your PC or your PS4 game console. Even multimedia applications such as Amazon Prime Video or Netflix have this option. This allows you to have your favorites and to have personalized content suggestions for each member of the family. Everyone has their own tastes and preferences. From the marketing side, this functionality is not negligible. Especially since commercial proposals can result from this and can succeed if issued to the right person: corresponds to the real needs of the user.
Why the choice of profile?
For example, each user would like to easily find their favorite films or the content they have recently viewed. It is not easy in the case of current Chromecast to meet these needs because the favorites are the combinations of the favorites of the entire family. The favorites are thus a mixed set of favorites of all the members of the family who use the device.
It's surprising that Google put a "For you" option at the top of the interface. This tab is therefore supposed to provide a list of recommended movie or TV show content based on the multimedia already visited. But this function loses its meaning in the case when each member of the family does not have the same preferences and could visit and like content of diametrically opposite genres.
Google didn't learn from others' mistakes
This lack of functionality was also observed with Google's competitors, to name only Amazon. Indeed, with the latter, the Amazon Fire TV is associated with a single Amazon account. Apple for its part with its new TVOS allows each user to create their profile.
Google has taken this issue into account and will do what is necessary to remedy it but has not issued a precise target date for the availability of this functionality which we consider essential.
