Changes to branding with various software items isn’t anything new. Remember when Google swapped out Play Magazines for Play Newsstand? Google has gone and made another little change today in the category section of the Play Store. They have quietly renamed the Chromecast category to Google Cast.
You will still find all the same apps that you did before, so it isn’t anything new or different. The name change is likely due to the upcoming release of Android TV that we saw back at Google I/O. We know that
Android TV boxes and TVs will have the same capabilities as the Chromecast but offer a heck of a lot more. We know this because Google offered up Android TV dev kits and released the
Google Cast Reciever app that can be installed to cast too. Phandroid points out that the actual protocol for forwarding the content to your TV is already called
Google Cast. Makes sense to brand the service the same. I suspect app developers will soon be re-tagging their apps as “Google Cast Ready” or Google Cast Compatible” in due time.
Source: Phandroid
