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It won't. Podcasts are removed from Music in iOS 6.
Are you kidding me? Currently my car radio can control the music app and let me listen to podcasts. Why would they take that functionality away?
Apple's highly questionable and deeply unfortunate skeuomorphism kick continues unabated. Now we're treated to a radio dial which died out in 1995, and playing podcasts presents a reel-to-reel, which died out in god knows when. It's completely bizarre. I guess podcasts are a form of talk radio, but tying them to some ancient radio technology that anyone under the age of 18 will have never touched is mental. They're e…
But the consumer in me thinks it's really cool and wants to slide and press the thingies!
Aaaaarrrghghghg... so conflicted!!
Apple's highly questionable and deeply unfortunate skeuomorphism kick continues unabated. Now we're treated to a radio dial which died out in 1995, and playing podcasts presents a reel-to-reel, which died out in god knows when. It's completely bizarre. I guess podcasts are a form of talk radio, but tying them to some ancient radio technology that anyone under the age of 18 will have never touched is mental. They're e…
More importantly though you seem to be suggesting that an interface should never make reference to the technologies that preceded it, for fear that a teenager might be made aware of something they've never seen before?
What a terrible thought, that someone might be encouraged to investigate analog audio technology. Why can't an interface be a history lesson too?
Relevant to the "Apple changes App Store search" story from the last couple of days: I am so far completely unable to find this app by searching for "podcasts", or even "podcasts apple". A quick Google search, on the other hand, worked instantly.
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I use Stitcher. and they've put a lot of work into it...
I have been using Stitcher too, and love it. Interestingly, after The Talk Show moved from 5by5 over to Mule Radio, I contacted all of the parties involved to try to get the new version of the show on Stitcher, so that all of my postcasts are managed in one app. I got a reply from someone at Mule (whose name I didn't recognize) that said that they did not like Stitcher's business model. This strikes me as strange bec…
I use Downcast every day, not even as an advanced user, but just because I need to download podcasts on-the-go. This sucks in comparison. * Catalog (aka Store) is very slow and clunky. Takes 5-10 seconds to flag episodes as "Downloaded" after I click on a podcast I have episodes for. * Clicking download button takes 4-5 seconds to react. Progress of download is not shown in store, but only in Library. * No connection…
If you add podcasts by URL, you are probably an advanced user.
And this is actually a lost feature relative to desktop iTunes: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/fanfaq.html
"It's easy to subscribe to any podcast using iTunes, even ones that aren't available in the iTunes Store. "
I assume that Music will still support podcasts? I'm miffed that videos were moved to an entirely different app; I'm subscribed to the TED talks video podcasts, but have to launch an entirely different application to listen to them (and yup, I listen to 99% of them as I'm walking around instead of watching them.)
It won't. Podcasts are removed from Music in iOS 6.
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I have been using Stitcher too, and love it. Interestingly, after The Talk Show moved from 5by5 over to Mule Radio, I contacted all of the parties involved to try to get the new version of the show on Stitcher, so that all of my postcasts are managed in one app. I got a reply from someone at Mule (whose name I didn't recognize) that said that they did not like Stitcher's business model. This strikes me as strange bec…
You don't see why taking advertising money for repackaging someone else's content is wrong?
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You don't see why taking advertising money for repackaging someone else's content is wrong?
I figured they were taking advertising money to fund both their work on the the app itself (which is free) and for maintaining the server infrastructure that allows them to stream quickly (which can't be cheap to them).
Not to mention that stitcher removes any editorial control over the kind of advertising associated with any given program.