Within minutes of unveiling its intriguing new Chromecast dongle, it looks like the Google Play store is already running out of supply of the cross-platform video streamer.
The new $35 device went on sale during Google’s San Francisco press event this morning with an original shipping estimate of one to two days, but now the ship date has been pushed back as far as August 7 for some shoppers.
Google has revealed its latest foray into TV hardware: Chromecast, a 2-inch dongle you plug into your TV’s HDMI port to stream cloud-based video from your smartphone, tablet or PC.
The tiny $35 piece of hardware, unveiled today at an Android press event in San Francisco, runs a simplified version of Chrome and is powered via USB. Chromecast support has already been built into apps like Netflix and YouTube, but Google is also releasing a Google Cast SDK that will allow developers to build Chromecast support directly into their apps.
