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On a recent trip back home, I had some downtime and my device was broken, so I threw a bunch of podcasts on the Apple TV. A few weeks later my dad calls to tel
by brownbat 9y ago
On a recent trip back home, I had some downtime and my device was broken, so I threw a bunch of podcasts on the Apple TV.
A few weeks later my dad calls to tell me he doesn't know how any of this works, but now he gets amazing content while driving, instead of just listening to the mostly ads that came through his antenna.
So.. just lack of awareness? Just fiddly enough to keep people away?
I have a sneaking suspicion that if tomorrow Apple or Google just subscribed everyone to 99% Invisible and waited, FM radio would be dead in a year.
- ghaff 9y agoProbably all of the above. Plus, for a lot of people, radio is mostly background noise that, in the case of news and talk radio, is always current. And there's always NPR to mostly avoid advertising. Many people don't want to have to deliberately choose content a lot of the time. I've heard people argue that they don't want to always have to use Netflix because they can't just flip on a channel and/or channel surf.