OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Kat Volpe laid out an exercise mat and tried to sync her iPhone with her big screen TV for a fitness class webcast on Instagram last week during New York’s coronavirus lockdown.
FILE PHOTO: An employee exits Harbor Fitness, following the citywide order to close gyms in the wake of the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
But the popular app is incompatible with Google’s Chromecast TV-plugin device which is remote controlled with a smartphone or computer.
As stay-at-home orders push workouts, concerts and even happy hours online, Volpe and other consumers are finding that some of the most popular services do not work with products from rivals.
Apps with surging demand for live streaming such as Zoom Video Communications Inc (ZM.O) and Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) Instagram are among major holdouts in adopting the phone-to-TV casting technology from Alphabet Inc’s…
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