Apple AirPlay’s Hotel Debut Signals New Standards in Streaming for Hotel Guests

Apple has decided that it’s going to do hotel streaming in the guest room, which means that the world’s largest company has decided that streaming is important. For Apple users reading this, it means that since last year their ‘phones have been updated in readiness, even if they didn’t realize it. They and their content can now be released into hotel rooms.

In terms of what this means for the evolution of casting; to use the language of the theory of technology diffusion;  we are now past the innovators stage and we’re moving to the early majority phase. If you are building or refurbishing a hotel, you will have to have streaming; the time of installing a Live TV setup is long past. I believe that the real mass deployment of…