Google sells 17 million Chromecast devices

Google has finally announced actual sales figures for its Chromecast streaming stick: Consumers have bought 17 million Chromecasts ever since the device got first introduced two years ago, announced Google’s senior vice-president of products Sundar Pichai at the company’s I/O developer conference in San Francisco Thursday.

And those 17 million devices are getting used, a lot: Chromecast users have cumulatively hit the cast button 1.5 billion times, said Chromecast vice-president of product management Mario Queiroz during a recent interview.

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