Overcast is by far the best podcast app in tpgone, I got fed up with Apple's spp years ago.
Apple has ruined its podcasts app
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Re: Apple has ruined its podcasts app
#12Overcast is by far the best podcast app in tpgone, I got fed up with Apple's spp years ago.
I'm a heavy podcast listener and have been happily using iCatcher for three years. With so many customisable options it feels like it's targeted to developers.
Re: Apple has ruined its podcasts app
#13Their podcast app has been garbage for quite some time. I dumped it for Overcast and I’ve not looked back. My podcasts instantly start, sound good and are all available. Do you your self a favor and try it.
Re: Apple has ruined its podcasts app
#14Get Overcast and be done with it. Apple hasn’t cared about their app for a long time.
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#15All podcast apps are terrible. Some are more terrible than others.
All a podcast app needs are the capabilities to find, list, and play mp3 files. That's it. Everything else is just trouble waiting to happen. And the finding can be just RSS feeds.
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#16There's a reason it's the only app in the store that has its reviews and rating mysteriously hidden
To be fair, all iOS internal Apple apps that you can remove are like this in the app store. And although they appear to be decoupled from iOS completely, updates aren't pushed out through the App Store either.
I don't think they are really decoupled from iOS. Updates are still delivered through iOS updates. I think it's in the App Store because when people remove it from their homescreen, the logical place they're going to search for it to bring it back would be searching in the App Store. But it's not an actual app delivered by the App Store, if that makes sense.
Re: Apple has ruined its podcasts app
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, all iOS internal Apple apps that you can remove are like this in the app store. And although they appear to be decoupled from iOS completely, updates aren't pushed out through the App Store either.
I don't think they are really decoupled from iOS. Updates are still delivered through iOS updates. I think it's in the App Store because when people remove it from their homescreen, the logical place they're going to search for it to bring it back would be searching in the App Store. But it's not an actual app delivered by the App Store, if that makes sense.
The only reason I say this is because it appears it does actually have to download back onto your device. So I'm not totally sure.