Why don't Google TV (and its many apps) not support offline downloads?

Offline downloads in a TV sound like a stupid request, isn't it? I know that. The largest screen in our houses that spend most of the time before is somehow connected to the Internet. Regardless of whether we stream directly on the television or via a box connected to it, whether we use an online subscription or look at something from our local NAS collection, we have a Wi-Fi connection to enjoy this content. Offline downloads do not make any sense there.

Nevertheless, I look at Google's TV platform and wish you supported offline downloads -as a platform and as individual apps. Why? A word: portability.

Many of us know Google TV as large, heavy and inpatient units that live in our houses. Nobody drags it around. In recent years I have and have seen and used several portable Google TV units. Small Google TV projectors that I can throw in a backpack for a weekend, a small Chromecast with Google TV dongle that I can take with a long trip to go to the hotel's television or airbnb or even tiny intelligent glasses Close that on Google TV and Google TV and Google TV and runs give me a huge television in front of my eyes on a flight or a train journey No lack of excellent, compact, light and travel-friendly Google TV units.

The problem? You need a connection that can be used around the clock (unless you strive to find some MP4 content and use VLC player or MX player to look at them). However, traveling is by definition if I don't have a good connection. I could be offline for hours during a flight, I could have a spotty connection on a train ride for several hours and I could be in a hotel without a free Wi-Fi.

Under these circumstances, I only look at my Android telephones and tables and sigh in frustration. Plex, Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, PocketCasts, Spotify etc. – I can easily download content for the offline display from all these apps and more on my phone and tablets. In fact, it is one of the most basic and important functions that every streaming app has on mobile devices.

However, the same apps do not allow offline downloads to Google TV projectors, dongliers and intelligent glasses. I either stream my content from a live connection or stuck with a useless paper weight. It's silly. That's annoying. It is an arbitrary restriction.

I just want to snap offline -youtube videos that I can see on my glasses during a train ride. Or download a film to follow my XGIMI projector during a weekend trip. I would like to be able to bring my Chromecast dongle back to Lebanon, to close it to my television and to look at a television series, even if I no longer have an active Internet subscription. Why do I have to go the piracy route to see content on one of the most convenient large screens that I can carry with me?

And yes, it is clear to me that there is a memory problem with many Google TV devices. Some of them, including Google's own Chromecast, were underpinned from the start with a massive 8-GB or 16 GB onboard memory. Most of them are adopted by the system and the few apps you install on them. However, some of these Google TV units, in particular the projectors and smart glasses, are equipped with more storage space (at least 32 GB) and offer microSD slots or USB slots to put the external memory. Please let us use this, please, Google? An official API for Google TV that could easily use all streaming apps would be ACE.