Google discontinues software updates for first-generation Chromecast from 2013

Delhi : This implies that Google's key-shaped streaming gadget, the Nexus Q, will no longer get software or security upgrades. In the larger scope of consumer electronics, over 10 years of support is not a terrible run, especially for one that was only $35. Google alerts customers that they "may notice a degradation in performance."

1.36.159268 is the most recent firmware for the 2013 Chromecast, and it was published in November 2022 with "bug fixes and improvements." That particular upgrade was the first in more than three years.

According to Google's support website for Chromecast firmware versions and release notes, which was most recently updated on April 27, 2023, The first generation of Chromecasts no longer get software or security updates, and Google no longer offers technical support for them. Users could observe a decline in performance.

The first Chromecast resembled a key and had an HDMI port on the right end as well as a micro-USB port for power and an adapter on the other. On the top, "Chrome" and the browser's logo were printed. Its low price was made possible by features like 512MB of RAM and 2GB of storage.  One interesting fact was that the H2G2-42 model number was an acronym for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything."

Two years after the first release of the Chromecast, Google released a second-generation, puck-shaped variant. An "Ultra" edition of the Chromecast Audio would be released a year later in 2016 at the first Made by Google event. The third generation debuted in 2018. That should be the final Google streaming product that uses Cast, with all later models switching to Google TV.