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Does this mean that there will be no first-party podcast app on Android? I’m deep into the Apple ecosystem, so it doesn’t really impact me, but I would guess th
by dhosek 3y ago
Does this mean that there will be no first-party podcast app on Android? I’m deep into the Apple ecosystem, so it doesn’t really impact me, but I would guess that most people who listen to podcasts use the default podcast app on their platform¹ so this would potentially be a killer blow to podcasters similar to how the closing of Google Reader decimated the blog ecosystem.
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1. HN readers would be outliers in this respect. I haven’t used Apple Podcasts for around a decade or so, using Overcast except for one podcast whose delivery method (dump a whole week’s daily meditations at once) and Overcast don’t play well together so I listen to that one on Downcast. What I’ve heard about the newest revisions to Apple Podcasts, though, make me curious about what it’s current state is.
- Symmetry 3y agoRelatedly, I used to be a happy Google Music user getting pretty fed up with YouTube Music. Are there any good services letting you upload a collection of music files and then play them from your phone or browser. Preferably also letting you download certain playlists for offline use?
- dhosek 3y agoI use iTunes match for that. I’m not sure if Apple still lets new people sign up for it, but you can have the master collection of your music on Apple’s servers (there are some limitations on length (but not size, oddly enough) so the lossless single-file recording I have of Richard Strauss’s Elektra is marked ineligible, but otherwise they have my full music collection.
- Navarr 3y agoI wouldn't consider Google Podcasts a first party app. Even as a Pixel user, I only ever interacted with it by searching for a podcast. I could install it, but it wasn't pre-installed. I'm not sure but YouTube Music _might_ be pre-installed. I can't recall.
- Kwpolska 3y agoGoogle Podcasts wasn’t installed on my Samsung phone out-of-the-box, and the app is 5 years old. I imagine most people found a podcast app they like, or they perhaps discovered podcasts on Spotify and stayed there.