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You're seeing this in the podcast space, where content is normally distributed via RSS. You have big players like Spotify buying up podcast productions and maki
by the_snooze 5y ago
You're seeing this in the podcast space, where content is normally distributed via RSS. You have big players like Spotify buying up podcast productions and making them exclusive behind their app. Luckily, right now open RSS distribution is still the norm for the overwhelming majority of podcasts, but who knows how long that'll last.
That quote is absolutely right with the MO of a lot of tech companies these days. They don't actually innovate on tech itself---that's too risky and expensive. Instead, they innovate on business models to make themselves toll operators on everyday life.
- spaetzleesser 5y ago"They don't actually innovate on tech itself---that's too risky and expensive. Instead, they innovate on business models " So true. When you look at most of the unicorns most of their tech could have been done 10 or 20 years ago. Considering their size the innovation output of giants like MS, Google or Apple is really low.
- ghaff 5y ago>Luckily, right now open RSS distribution is still the norm for the overwhelming majority of podcasts, but who knows how long that'll last. Presumably it will probably last so long as advertising pays the bills for those for whom podcasts are a directly commercial endeavor. At which point they'll go behind paywalls and/or die.
- wffurr 5y agoPaywalls and RSS aren’t mutually exclusive. Ars Technica offers full-text RSS feeds for subscribers. Substack sites have RSS for public posts but also some subscriber-only posts. Podcasts could work similarly; I’d be surprised there weren’t some already.