Pocket Casts acquired by NPR • Hacker News Board

Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

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Post by simcop2387 » Thu, May 03, 2018, 9:15 PM UTC

eigen-vector wrote: post #15

I'm so glad to see the team behind Pocket Casts find success. It's one app I've never been disappointed with and supported right from the beginning. The paramount quality of a good app is how easily it gets out of the way and lets you enjoy the content. Pocket Casts has done a spectacular job at that.

Yea it's been my favorite podcasting app since i found it. So glad it's NPR and such that acquired it and not a company that's going to fill it with ads (the main reason i stopped using any other apps).

Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

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Post by izacus » Thu, May 03, 2018, 9:16 PM UTC

And now they'll "adjust business strategy" and make it a bloated Ad ridden pile of crap most likely. These aquisitions never end well.

Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

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Post by DanCarvajal » Thu, May 03, 2018, 9:16 PM UTC

I sure how they don't cram in a requirement to also be a local station supporter to use certain features in the app. I think that's a big misstep of the PBS app.

Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

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Post by mrbonner » Thu, May 03, 2018, 9:16 PM UTC

I am so glad my donation to NPR went to good use!

Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

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Post by mey » Thu, May 03, 2018, 9:17 PM UTC

scrooched_moose wrote: post #6

torgoguys wrote: post #4

"Pocket Casts users will continue to enjoy: A wide variety of podcasts from hundreds of national and international producers;" I hope this is just an unintentional underrepresentation of how many podcast producers are out there (many thousands, not just hundreds) and doesn't mean they're limiting which podcasts can be listened to in Pocket Casts.

It's possible it's just a count of how many podcasts are included in the "Discover" section. I don't know what the process for getting added to that is. It covers almost all of the "big" podcasts, but there are a handful of local ones I've had to add manually.

You can plug in a feed url to the add section for podcasts they don't know about.

Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

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Post by nickwanninger » Thu, May 03, 2018, 9:18 PM UTC

mrbonner wrote: post #24

I am so glad my donation to NPR went to good use!

From the article: "New York Public Radio's investment in Pocket Casts was made possible, in part, by Cynthia King Vance and a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York."

I don't think it was from donations, but I could be wrong

Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

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Post by JustSomeNobody » Thu, May 03, 2018, 9:19 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #22

And now they'll "adjust business strategy" and make it a bloated Ad ridden pile of crap most likely. These aquisitions never end well.

I hope not. I bought my first copy for Android back at version 3. When I moved to iOS, it was the very first app I bought. I'll buy it again if it keeps ads away.

Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

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Post by LeoPanthera » Thu, May 03, 2018, 9:19 PM UTC

gumberculese wrote: post #3

The Apple podcast app has gotten continuously worse over the past few years, I'm excited to see that 3rd parties are picking up the slack, but I'm still pretty disappointed that Apple has neglected one of the most important aspect of the phone (for me, anyway).

That's funny, I've had the exact opposite impression. The only thing I don't like about Apple Podcasts is that, by default, there's no way to play episodes chronologically, independent of podcast. But you can add this feature by creating a "station".

Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

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Post by JustSomeNobody » Thu, May 03, 2018, 9:23 PM UTC

gumberculese wrote: post #3

The Apple podcast app has gotten continuously worse over the past few years, I'm excited to see that 3rd parties are picking up the slack, but I'm still pretty disappointed that Apple has neglected one of the most important aspect of the phone (for me, anyway).

Try PocketCasts, it's amazing!

Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

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Post by sid-kap » Thu, May 03, 2018, 9:27 PM UTC

Is there any chance this will lead to being able to listen to old TAL episodes via RSS? It's kinda strange that TAL is buying a podcast player company but they don't want us to listen to their podcasts...