> why would you expect Apple to make it available to competing podcast apps? Because you don't want your audience to be captured by Apple, who can extract rent

> why would you expect Apple to make it available to competing podcast apps? Because you don't want your audience to be captured by Apple, who can extract rents based on their artificially mediating the relationship with them (through their app and network of podcasts)? This is like asking "why should you expect a superior business relationship?". Corporate network Stockholm syndrome.