I really hope they don't fuck this up. I use this app every day.
Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
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Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
#32And now they'll "adjust business strategy" and make it a bloated Ad ridden pile of crap most likely. These aquisitions never end well.
I believe you mean "...
underwriter ridden pile of crap ..."
Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
#33I 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
Note the phrase "in part".
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#34I've been frustrated with many free podcast apps so I paid for Pocket Casts and I've been happy since. I think it's a smart move by NPR et al. What they want is the usage data like where they pause, where they skip, etc. These data were traditionally not available to podcast publishers because podcast is really just an mp3 file uploaded to some server. NPR has the NPR One app but I guess not enough people are using i…
I also love Pocket Casts, particularly with the "skip pauses" feature. Often podcasts are full of short pauses... to date, I have saved 9 hours of time with the feature enabled!
I’ve saved 18 hours, and over 2 days by playing at 1.5x speed! Whoa. I listen to podcasts more than I thought!
Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
#35Time to look for alternatives?
Call me a cynic but I have a feeling their bias (and questionable tech capabilities) will drive it down to the ground.
Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
#36The 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).
I've never used the Apple one, but Pocket Casts is the only app I've ever paid for on four platforms (Android, iOS, Windows Phone and the web player) and not regretted it at all. It's a gem.
Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
#37And now they'll "adjust business strategy" and make it a bloated Ad ridden pile of crap most likely. These aquisitions never end well.
NPR's own One app isn't a bloated ad-ridden pile of crap, why would they take PocketCasts in that direction?
Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
#38And now they'll "adjust business strategy" and make it a bloated Ad ridden pile of crap most likely. These aquisitions never end well.
Are you... not familiar with NPR? It's a non-profit public radio entity. It's some of the least-ad-ridden content available on the planet and a tremendous resource.
Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
#39I 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
You can't donate to NPR (at least, not easily)...
You can argue that donations to local NPR stations helps free up revenue for NPR the organization, but donations don't directly translate in to anything that NPR does.
Re: Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try Overcast, I’m a big fan. I finally gave up on the Apple app years ago after it was unable to sync my place for the 1200th time. Never had that issue with Overcast.
Seconding Overcast - it has traditionally traded blows with Pocket Casts as the best 3rd party podcast app on iOS, but I like it better for the smart speed and voice boosting features.
Overcast is continuing to go against the podcast industry grain by making privacy a distinguishing feature (https://marco.org/2018/04/27/overcast42). Good move. It's not useful to me as I have Android as well as iOS devices, but if I was Apple-locked, I'd be having a serious look at Overcast.