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What made me leave the iPhone ecosystem, many years ago, was when they pulled all the podcatchers off the app store because they were going to be adding podcast
by Symmetry 5y ago
What made me leave the iPhone ecosystem, many years ago, was when they pulled all the podcatchers off the app store because they were going to be adding podcast support to iTunes soon. Not only that but getting podcasts from iTunes at the time meant plugging your iPhone into your computer running iTunes, much less convenient than having your phone download things over WiFi. Especially since I was using Linux and didn't have a computer that could run iTunes.
- d35007 5y agoWhen was this? Based on https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2005/06/28Apple-Takes-Podcasting-Mainstream/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2005/06/28Apple-Takes-Podcast..., it looks like Apple added podcast support to iTunes in 2005. The iPhone wasn’t released until 2007 and the App Store didn’t exist until 2008.
- Symmetry 5y agoI was using an iPhone 3GS so it would have been 2009 or 2010. I might very well have been mistaken about podcast support in iTunes being new given that I didn't use iTunes.
- VortexDream 5y agoI assume he means this, where Apple banned a podcast app because it "duplicated existing functionality". https://www.networkworld.com/article/2346233/apple-shows-true-colors--bans-iphone-apps.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/2346233/apple-shows-tru...
- d35007 5y agoThanks. Apple has arbitrarily banned so many apps that I guess I just forgot about this one. It's hard to imagine a time when iPhones couldn't download podcasts over the air. I can understand why banning Podcaster would have made OP sour on Apple.
- jjcon 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Podcasts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Podcasts The actual podcasts app was released in 2012