It is fairly OK in terms of the compatibility across Apple products - as always for the ecosystem. However, the way it works is totally poor - when the apps is closed (either by user or somehow killed by iOS) the airplay connection drops. In opposite, content played by chromecast seems to sustain individually, regardless of the apps status.
Even I am using iPhone and have an Apple computer at home, a chromecast hardware is installed and more frequently used than Airplay.
Do anyone else experience similar as me?
What are the differences? I’ve never used either
Not a comparison. The equivalent to chromecast is the remote control to apple tv. Airplay is just a way to cast whatever is playing to a different screen whereas chromecast is a remote control to tell the target device to play what you want (all decoding and processing are done on the target device)
If only Airplay works for Netflix and everything
AirPlay is better than chromecast in my experience, I just wish AirPlay had more compatibility
AirPlay is so buggy for me. YouTube is the worst offender so far. I always have to click a video, it will buffer forever so I have to dismiss the video which causes YouTube to lag then tap the video again and now it will load… very irritating.
Airplay for me works better than chromecast. It connects faster and more reliably to my tv and the subtitles actually work
And the resolution is much better on airplay while sharing the whole screen.
Yea not to mention im using a ~7 year old LG smart tv to connect with airplay and it works better than the ~3 year old chromecast we have
The only problematic thing i have had with airplay is samsung tv’s built in ones. It just keeps dropping but since i use it with apple tv 4k, it almost works like wired connection. Stablest screen mirroring experience i have ever had compared to anything.
If you have a device that supports it. Which in my experience, is rare. same for apps.
yeah dude airplay blows compared to chromecast
Works perfectly with Infuse.
You can even use your iDevice and Airplay just works in background.
Why should I Airplay a youtube video when I have YouTube on Apple TV?
Because Siri sucks so it is sometimes much easier to type in what you’re searching for.
When your apps close the connection won’t drop if you use screen mirroring to do AirPlay. Give it a try. 😉
AirPlay’s current state is indeed inferior than ChromeCasr
Oh absolutely. Airplay is a miserable experience. Fast forwarding and rewinding don’t work half the time, and the connection drops randomly when I’m not even touching my phone
I find AirPlay to be vastly superior for streaming live events to a tv. Chromecast always lags during events like football games. It’s to the point where my roommates will ask me to AirPlay things for them since they have Samsung phones.
That’s because I believe Apple Music is the only service which will play through the AirPlay device with your iPhone being simply a remote. Every other service is simply cast from your phone (plays directly on your phone) so closing the app terminates the streaming. It’s definitely inferior to Chromecast and Spotify connect in the way this works but it’s just Apple’s closed ecosystem
it’s because chromecast devices have in-built apps like yt, spotify, etc whatever you’re streaming so it’s actually not your phone streaming but chromecast itself (or the in-built chromecast in your smarttv) that’s why you can do whatever in the background on your phone while the stream continues
not the same for devices with airplay functionality, except appleTV.
just buy an apple tv lol scrub (/s)
