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The audacity of Apple Podcasts

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Post by arvinsim »

hot_gril wrote: post #194
MBCook wrote: post #193

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As someone who loves Apple stuff: what kind of people are you hanging out with? I’ve never heard an adult I interact with express that. My Android using friends don’t care.

There are people who get iPhones just for iMessage. They don't want to be the one person who puts the entire group chat into "green bubble" mode. People accuse Apple of doing this intentionally, but you know, it's not their fault SMS is terrible; even Android users tend to use WhatsApp or something for group chats.

At least WhatsApp can be used in iOS.

Can iMessage be used in Android? No.

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Post by arvinsim »

mgraupner wrote: post #265
gymbeaux wrote: post #262

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My iPhone 12 Mini had gotten slow and the battery life was becoming mediocre (after only 2 years), so I spent the last couple of months looking at phones. I use Linux primarily, so I was looking at Android phones because of course iPhones don’t talk to Linux or Windows computers. Unfortunately I ended up with an iPhone 14 because without an iPhone: - I can’t use (or update) my Apple Watch - I can’t use/track my AirTa…

The iPhone 12 mini has an A14 and the iPhone 14 an A15 processor. Geekbench single core performance is 7% better in the newer one. I doubt you're "feeling" the difference in speed between these two phones. The battery life in the 12 mini was not considered good from the start, so it's understandable, that after two years the battery is in not so good shape anymore.

As an owner of the 12 Pro, I can concur that the battery life of the 12 line is not that great compared to the 13/14.

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Post by peoplefromibiza »

karel_3d wrote: post #267
b0tch7 wrote: post #217

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> Apple has controlled the podcast industry through the iTunes podcast directory since day one. > They ARE the podcast industry. And they’ve been open. Hmmm is this really true? I've been listening to podcasts since 2012ish which puts me fairly early in the adoption curve and I've never used iTunes once (always been PocketCasts on Android). Anyway, just another f'ing reason to NOT go all-in on Apple. Apple Podcasts k…

The "pod" in "podcasts" stands for iPod. They even C&D the original podcast app, because it was named iPodder. "Apple Takes Podcasting Mainstream" in 2005. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2005/06/28Apple-Takes-Podcast...

> The "pod" in "podcasts" stands for iPod.

Yes, but it wasn't invented by Apple, but by a BBC Journalist, who had nothing to do with Apple.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038m811

As per Wikipedia page:

The term "podcast" predates Apple's addition of podcasting features to the iPod and the iTunes software.

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Post by BonoboIO »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #160

Spotify podcasts don't have RSS feeds either. And have massively expanded their podcast program over the past few years, such that they know serve more podcast listeners than Apple. But this is the play several big players are involved in make to try to convert podcasts into walled gardens. The OP is really sniping around the edges of a major thing that's going on, which Apple is actually playing catch-up on. https:/…

There are ways to get the off files and create your own rss, because their player is sh*t … i Heard ;-)

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Post by arvinsim »

mgrandl wrote: post #264
l33tbro wrote: post #45

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Overcast really destroys everything else I've used for listening to a podcast. Simple and intuitive UI, customizable streaming/download settings, quickly add any podcast - and that's at the free level. I would never go back to Apple or even Spotify. I rarely get enthusiastic about apps, but it's awesome when one clearly demonstrates a team having gone 'how can we get this right'?

Tried all the common choices for iOS like Overcast and Castro, but settled on Pocket Casts. It’s cross platform and open source (client only) and in my opinion has the best UX. Also the only one with a reliable offline Apple Watch experience back when I tested them.

I bought PocketCasts early on and my account got grandfathered into a lifetime subscription. Also have no plans of switching.

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Post by karel_3d »

Aren't there ways to ummm... "circumvent" Apple's DRM?

Given that the people migrating the podcasts are the actual copyright owners, that should not even be illegal? (But I am not an expert.)

By looking online I see some random software for removing Apple's FairPlay, but it's all commercial.

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Post by bob_theslob646 »

scarface74 wrote: post #164
tomxor wrote: post #102

> That’s right: if you host your show with Apple, the only listeners you can have are folks with the Apple Podcasts app. This feels like an absolutely wild choice from a product perspective; it’s the mindset of a company who still thinks that they have dominance over the podcasting world. It’s ludicrous to assume that it’s a good thing for listeners to have to have specific hardware in order to listen to a podcast. I…

> Apple's end game is vertical integration, it's "lock-in" on steroids. When they own every product or service in the stack, they can tune one product (like podcasts) to serve the purposes of another, even when it appears to hurt a product and it's users individually, because it benefits Apple as a whole. This is demonstrable not true. From the time that iTunes first introduced podcast support in iTunes back in 2004…

This is a great answer/ great reply to the thread. Thank you for sharing

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Post by ahartmetz »

bongobingo1 wrote: post #270
simonh wrote: post #235

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>> They ARE the podcast industry. And they’ve been open. >Hmmm is this really true? They’ve accounted for the vast majority of podcast listeners since the early iPod days. It’s literally why they are called podcasts. They only dipped below 50% of listeners relatively recently.

Wonder what they're called in the alternate universes? Zunecasts? (mp)3casts?

Netcast seems appropriate

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Post by steve1977 »

gymbeaux wrote: post #262
tomxor wrote: post #102

> That’s right: if you host your show with Apple, the only listeners you can have are folks with the Apple Podcasts app. This feels like an absolutely wild choice from a product perspective; it’s the mindset of a company who still thinks that they have dominance over the podcasting world. It’s ludicrous to assume that it’s a good thing for listeners to have to have specific hardware in order to listen to a podcast. I…

My iPhone 12 Mini had gotten slow and the battery life was becoming mediocre (after only 2 years), so I spent the last couple of months looking at phones. I use Linux primarily, so I was looking at Android phones because of course iPhones don’t talk to Linux or Windows computers. Unfortunately I ended up with an iPhone 14 because without an iPhone: - I can’t use (or update) my Apple Watch - I can’t use/track my AirTa…

Not disputing your general points, but you could have gotten your iPhone battery replaced for about 70 USD.
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