<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>Two likely reasons. First, the previous form factor didn&amp;#x27;t fit in all TVs, so they had to include a tiny HDMI extender cable; this form factor has built-in tolerance for tight fits.  Second, the new form factor allows more room for hardware bits and heat dissipation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Omni5cience</author><text>I wonder what prompted the new form factor. I rather liked the simple HDMI stick aesthetic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Chromecast 2015</title><url>https://store.google.com/product/chromecast_2015</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Florin_Andrei</author><text>I just installed a couple old CCs at the office, and the old rigid form factor can sometimes be tricky to plug into some TVs, due to the mounting brackets sitting right on top of the video connectors. Bad design from the TV makers? Yes, but the flexible dongle would never have this issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Omni5cience</author><text>I wonder what prompted the new form factor. I rather liked the simple HDMI stick aesthetic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Chromecast 2015</title><url>https://store.google.com/product/chromecast_2015</url></story>