But I do hope, as a long-time user, that someone proves me wrong. I'm genuinely not sure how to make a business out of "Yet Another Player Of Free Stuff Even If It's Quite Capable At Playing The Free Stuff". Moving forward - I'd like the audio player code to be bought by Spotify or Google, both of whom could significantly benefit from it. That's a crying shame - and I wish it stood for something. ![]() As it continues to slip below 1% market share, it'll quickly become invisible to podcasters. But it's now squeezed between Google and PodcastAddict - neither advanced enough nor different enough to succeed. Pocket Casts is pretty, and has a decent UX. I find it super-unintuitive and massively ugly but Xavier is keen to improve it all the time, and it's notable that he is very visible wherever podcast devs hang out. On the other hand, the Android power users will use PodcastAddict, which (unlike Pocket Casts) has continued to innovate and has incorporated plenty of Podcast Index stuff. Pocket Casts will be losing significantly from Google getting into the game, since new users will just use the Google option. For many, it's now the default, "decently capable" podcast app on Android. Google Podcasts is now at a point where it's the #3 podcast app in more than a few pieces of data from hosts. I can't see any evidence that they have even investigated it. They could have taken a punt on Adam Curry's Podcast Index work and made themselves the defacto app for that work. Pocket Casts itself has seen its market share shrink since becoming a freemium app and doesn't appear to have innovated much - no WebSub, no episode images, no payment options. Owen Grover was a decent chap and was good at extolling the virtues of an open platform but I've literally heard nothing about the other two. I don't understand what the three CEOs that Pocket Casts have had have done. ![]() ![]() I'm prepared to lay a bet that the losses come from management costs, nothing more. This isn't unique to PocketCasts, but is one reason why I came back to it. The full Apple Podcasts catalogue (since BBC content is blocked from Google Podcasts, because the BBC are idiots). That's the main annoyance really - having to manually scroll to where I left off on the watch if I want to resume on the phone.Pocket Casts to me has two unbeatable features:Ī really, really good audio player - the skip-silence and the voice-boost is light-years ahead of anything that anyone else has produced (with the possible exception of Overcast, but I don't use it enough to know) And, when I seek that specific episode out on my phone - under downloads or just podcasts or wherever - it shows no sign of the progress I made with it on the watch earler that day. 'In progress' however is again device specific (like downloaded) - so on my phone my only 'in progress' episode is something I started on the phone, with no sign of the history podcast that I got halfway through on my watch this morning. Over on my watch I can see all these under 'phone' as source but under watch as source 'downloaded' only shows what I've downloaded on the watch (which is fine of course) while 'starred' is indeed the same list as it is on the phone - again this is fine, as this is the list I go to on my watch to hit 'download'. On my phone I only have three filters - downloaded, in progress, and starred.
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