Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor

• This is Google's new streaming box, the Google TV Streamer. It's meant to sit on your media console instead of hanging from your TV's USB port like the Chromecast. [credit: Google ]

Google is discontinuing the Chromecast brand and pulling its Chromecast hardware off the market after 11 years, but it's not leaving the streaming device business.