I hate that google shuts down their services so much. I was using Google Podcast a lot and then I switched to Pocket Casts a year ago. Luckily I have no dependency on it. I have so much notes on Google Keep that I am genuinely worried if they shut it down. They might give prior notice and I can easily export. I think except Search, Maps, Mail, YouTube anything else could be taken down any time.
Same happening with their Domains. I was also using hangouts a lot. It just makes my so anxious to use any of their product.
I have to use any google product keeping in mind that it could get shut down any day.
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024
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A fate worse than death. (Joke but I was a heavy Google Music user before it suffered the same fate).
That was an annoying and janky migration, but Youtube Music has a better interface than Google Play Music ever did. Though conceptually it's still just weird. A video that I like on youtube because of the video component isn't necessarily a song I want to listen to as music. Also it really needs the ability to block music from certain artists.
Pro tip: you can use separate brand account for YT Music without any additional fee.
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#193We have gone full circle. I started with Google Music which had both music and podcasts at the time. Then they took podcasts out of Google Music and made me install a second Google Podcast app just to listen to my podcasts. Then they shut down Google Music and forced me to move to YouTube Music. Now they are shutting down Google Podcasts and integrating that back into YouTube Music. Like WTF.
Tbh I think the moves make sense to a certain degree. Users like apps focused on specific experiences so if a user group is big enough or growing enough it makes sense to cater to that. Podcasts were briefly looking promising so spinning them off into a separate product probably seemed like an easy way of acquiring users who only cared about podcasts. Now it's the present though and it turns out podcast momentum was a shortlived trend in terms of commercial relevance and that a completely separate app is a waste of resources. Sorry to be harsh to the podcast fans but in reality I'm amazed they even preserved them at all when there's no shortage of podcast content published to YouTube already because of its reach. If people are already cross-promoting that much anyway you may as well just merge them over.
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#194That's an odd thing to do. My parents use it because it has "Podcast" in its name so it's their go-to solution for listening to podcasts. I really doubt that they will click and go to a "YouTube Music" site or app in order to consume a simple podcast.
Google Podcasts is simple to use, one thing made with a clear, specific purpose, with an easy to use interface. They should keep it just to improve their brand recognition. But no... YouTube Music it is.
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#195Ffs... I am a really good predictor for what Google is killing next. I just started using it because it was preinstalled on the pixel and I was lazy.
It’s getting rolled into YouTube Music, not killed off. The UI might not be as good. I guess we’ll see.
As far as users are concerned, it is killed off.
Especially considering how migration from Google Music to YT Music went.
Personally despite looking to get into podcasts I ended up writing off Google Podcasts from the start, expecting it will stop working just like Listen did.
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It's amazing how incompetent they seem in this area. They even shut down another podcast app before your journey began, called Google listen. Luckily, although you might want Google's proprietary music player to access their subscription content, there's absolutely no reason to use a Google podcast app. I am a fan of Antennapod[0], which is available on F-Droid. [0] https://antennapod.org/
That's much better than Google Podcasts, thanks!
This must be the first time those words have been used in that order. I suspect possibly also the last.
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> t's amazing how incompetent they seem in this area You may be surprised at how competent they look internally. If I were a betting man, I'd say each of those transitions went into a promotion/performance packet. I count at least 3 product teams competent at developing podcast features, and were likely rewarded for it.
The only successful products I can think of from Google that were entirely of their own making are Google Search, GMail, and Chrome. Their other successes all came from acquisitions, like YouTube, Maps (KeyHole), Docs (Writely), Android, etc. They deserve some credit for their cultivation and maintenance of these products, but they did not create them.
Their main product is ads
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, for now. I used to be able to split my screen and have YouTube running in the background while in other apps, until they took that away in an update.
As a free user on Android, I'm able to use YT in PiP mode with any non-music video. Also FWIW, I doubt YT Music will ever have enough monopolistic control over the podcast industry to take away such fundamental functionality.
Picture-in-Picture requires a YouTube Premium subscription outside the US.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only successful products I can think of from Google that were entirely of their own making are Google Search, GMail, and Chrome. Their other successes all came from acquisitions, like YouTube, Maps (KeyHole), Docs (Writely), Android, etc. They deserve some credit for their cultivation and maintenance of these products, but they did not create them.
Their main product is ads
And to their credit, they are remarkably good at projectile vomiting that garbage all across the internet
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#200Unpopular opinion: i loved it and used it everyday, sad to see a lightweight app with no BS on any part of the screen die.
Same here, now will either have to find something similar, or go back to downloading MP3 from RSS feeds.