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It does appear to be an Apple specific issue but given Apple products make up a significant portion of the world's devices, it's surprising that someone like Google have not solved for this.
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Totally agree. It was/is a pointless stand off over a matter of principle. And Apple were probably in the right.
You still can't stream IPTV using multicasting on Google wifi. You can argue that its virtually impossible to do over wifi, but there is no excuse for it not to work over a cable plugged in to Google wifi. Google are not very good at updates that customers actually want.
Stonehedge
This is a very hazy memory, but wasn't there a period of a few years where most macbooks, iPads and iPhones would have trouble staying connected to wireless APs using a certain version of the protocol? Not defending Google at all, but I have a recollection of a big apple vs rest of the world dispute on wifi protocols. I.e Apple spent a few years refusing to provide backwards compatibility for older kit and Apple argued that the entire world should upgrade their APs instead.