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The audacity of Apple Podcasts

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Post by pwinnski »

duxup wrote: post #317
pwinnski wrote: post #306

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Or your computer crashed and you're having to rebuild from a failed backup. Or you're traveling away from your backups and need access. Or you upload from one device and usually download to your archive on another device. There are more scenarios in heaven and earth than I could possibly list here.

None of that was described by the author. I have trouble believing they think of it as a backup service… If they do I think it is just another misunderstanding on the author’s part.

That you can't think of a single scenario in which people might want to rely on the previously-uploaded copies of a large binary files is one thing. That you dismiss the several I came up with off the top of my head is another.

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Post by duxup »

pwinnski wrote: post #321
duxup wrote: post #317

Earlier quoted context omitted.

None of that was described by the author. I have trouble believing they think of it as a backup service… If they do I think it is just another misunderstanding on the author’s part.

That you can't think of a single scenario in which people might want to rely on the previously-uploaded copies of a large binary files is one thing. That you dismiss the several I came up with off the top of my head is another.

I feel like you’re just in another scenario that isn’t in the story.

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Post by BlueTemplar »

SllX wrote: post #309
BlueTemplar wrote: post #290

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Laws supposedly punish anti competitive practices, yet somehow Apple still hasn't been shut down for owning both an OS and an app store (and with their own apps in there too !) on very personal computers...

That law doesn’t exist. Why would such a law exist?

Because it's a conflict of interest that we now know has been abused by most if not all the major players ?

Remember how Microsoft had been punished for only having Internet Explorer pre-installed on Windows ?

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Post by [deleted] »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #169
arthurofbabylon wrote: post #5

Reading this, I get the impression that someone at Apple tried to do the market capture playbook tactics (churn prevention, competitor lockout, first-party-favoritism) in an open world (podcasts). Obviously it doesn’t work, while eroding the underlying ecosystem. The smart move by Apple is to keep podcasts open, keep being the de facto provider, don’t bother making money from it now, and use it as a foot-in-the-door…

> keep being the de facto provider, They are already in the process of losing that. > Spotify overtook Apple Podcasts as the biggest US podcast platform in 2021, when the Swedish company drew 28.3 million monthly US podcast listeners, about 200,000 more than its rival did. — https://www.insiderintelligence.com/content/spotify-apple-po... Spotify, with it's own walled garden podcasts without RSS feeds, that can only b…

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Post by Tagbert »

bastawhiz wrote: post #130
Tagbert wrote: post #105

How does this relate to the thousands of podcasts that are listed in the iTunes podcast directory and that are freely playable on any podcast app on any platform? Is this for a special set of podcasts that are using Apple's system to manage access to paid subscriptions? If that is the case, then this seems reasonable.

This is unrelated to the vast majority of shows that just use Apple as a directory

Thank you

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Post by mgraupner »

gymbeaux wrote: post #299
mgraupner wrote: post #265

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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.

So I have the iPhone 14 Pro Max which looks to be about a 30% improvement.

Only in multi core. Single core performance is up 18%. I once read you need at least 20% higher speed to feel an improvement. Perhaps the 120 Hz display is a much higher factor in the perceived performance in your new phone.

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Post by filoleg »

witheld wrote: post #263
mrkstu wrote: post #240

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Do you have an example that would be findable via iTunes on PC? This one doesn't seem reachable/searchable there.

My suspicion is that iTunes for PC won’t even show listings for DRM protected podcasts, which is why you can’t find it.

It shows on iTunes for PC just fine. I have confirmed in another reply in this thread that I was able to see the DRMd podcast episode posted by @bastawhiz on PC, but I was not able to download it.
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