The Chromecast will always be better than the Google TV streamer

The Google TV Streamer is Google’s latest foray into the streaming world, and it replaced the outgoing Google Chromecast. As somebody looking to retire my Chromecast 4K, I thought about making the obvious decision of going for the Streamer, but there were a few different things that gave me pause.

While the Google TV Streamer seems like a perfectly serviceable device, I’d rather not hop onto the first iteration of something, even if it’s building off the solid Google TV OS. What it largely comes down to, for me at least, is that Google’s new streamer doesn’t do enough to make me want to leave the familiar territory of the Apple TV 4K, my favorite streamer on the market. My current plan is to pick up a newer Apple TV 4K and put my aging first-gen one where my Chromecast currently is. From there, my Chromecast goes into a box where it’ll stay until I get a TV set up in my basement.

It’s not entirely Google’s fault, but there are some things I need to see from the…