Totally agree. The app design is very clunky and finding what you need is cumbersome. It almost seems like some Apple TV podcast app was made and dropped into the APP store for the iPhone.
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Totally agree. The app design is very clunky and finding what you need is cumbersome. It almost seems like some Apple TV podcast app was made and dropped into the APP store for the iPhone.
Without a doubt, the Apple podcast app has been the best thing for Downcast ever. I'm curious to know the % increase for app sells over the past month or two for Downcast.
I really wanted this to be an app I'd love.
1. Getting annoyed by all the extra taps Apple's apps have been requiring lately to do basic stuff that should only require one or two taps. These UI's are getting needlessly busy, inefficient, and inelegant. of which this app is a great example.
2. I tried Stitcher. Get it together, Apple.
1. Getting annoyed by all the extra taps Apple's apps have been requiring lately to do basic stuff that should only require one or two taps. These UI's are getting needlessly busy, inefficient, and inelegant. of which this app is a great example.
2. I tried Stitcher. Get it together, Apple.
My primary specifications include:
1) Not locking up
2) Not restarting randomly
Regardless of how interesting the Podcast app may be I don't think those are lofty goals, and not being able to attain them is a perfectly good reason to **** all over it.
More quality issues from Apple. This would not have happened on Steve's watch. Let's hope its not a terminal decline.
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Whilst you were away, I arranged to have the "Vote Down" button removed from your computer. Sorry.
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Whilst you were away, I arranged to have the "Vote Down" button removed from your computer. Sorry.
My thoughts exactly. Terrible to use and nearly unresponsive. I found myself tap-tap-tap-tapping all over the UI to get it to react.
I canned it and went back to the music app.
Just had to come in here and say something nice, eh?
It badly needs it.
When it came out I was quite excited because it's feature set was perfect for me and I was anxious to cut the cord with iTunes.
But there were too many bugs. The biggest one for me is that it refused to automatically download anything.
There were many other annoyances (e.g., long hangs when switching to it, randomly marking old postcasts as unplayed.)
It was a horrible release.
I'm glad they are fixing it, but I already moved on to Downcast (a pretty good app at $1.99)
When it came out I was quite excited because it's feature set was perfect for me and I was anxious to cut the cord with iTunes.
But there were too many bugs. The biggest one for me is that it refused to automatically download anything.
There were many other annoyances (e.g., long hangs when switching to it, randomly marking old postcasts as unplayed.)
It was a horrible release.
I'm glad they are fixing it, but I already moved on to Downcast (a pretty good app at $1.99)
I thought I made it clear I was talking about the criticism of the reel-to-reel design. I edited it like 10 seconds after the original post- there couldn't have been enough time for you to only see my original post that made that a bit ambiguous.
I have a nagging feeling that Apple released this app early because of iOS6 leaks on the rumor-blogosphere.
I know, now I'm lost.
It really was stupid to remove the down vote though. We can only like posts, but not dislike them? Like kindergarten.
It's annoying when workable software that followed the HIG and UI guidelines for the iPhone is replaced with skeuomorphic **** with an opaque UI.
It's THAT word again!
Yes, I know what it means. I've just seen an influx in the usage of this word lately.
I don't watch/listen to many podcasts, but I downloaded the app to see what everybody is talking about. It ran for a minute before freezing up and crashing. I'm probably not going to open it ever again.
And worse yet: it's reminiscent of FaceBook. Ugh.
And worse yet: it's reminiscent of FaceBook. Ugh.
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Christ it must be wired being you. Forever wondering how anyone, ANYONE at all could share a opinion other than yours!
It must have been just enough time for me to hit the quote button.
Sorry I missed the ninja-edit. When I read the first part the reel-to-reel bit didn't come through.
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Things they need to sort out for me:
I gave up and went back to the Music app because the Podcast app just caused too many headaches...
- Freezing / Crashing... and I mean ALL the time...
- Syncing played / unplayed episodes back to iTunes / Music app properly
- Random episodes of podcasts suddenly getting flagged as Unplayed and downloading themselves on my iPhone
I gave up and went back to the Music app because the Podcast app just caused too many headaches...
Aside from the UI, which I could give or take, the functionality of this app is one of the worst I've seen and still am shocked it came from Apple. Embarrassing.
Don't mind the concept of the app or the look and feel but the execution is just terrible. Slow, unresponsive and riddled with bugs (that kind that freeze my iPhone for a little over a minute and then crash back to home screen...can't even home button out of it....). Setting a podcast up for autodownload has never worked right. I have reinstalled iOS on my iPhone 4 and still have problems with this terrible POS app.
Hopefully this update will make the app what it should have been from the start. I'm starting to wonder if Apple is dropping the ball in the QA department.
Hopefully this update will make the app what it should have been from the start. I'm starting to wonder if Apple is dropping the ball in the QA department.
can someone explain to me how this app relates to the old sync podcasts manually from iTunes feature?
I mean, when you enable iTunes Match you can no longer sync music from iTunes on Mac because it goes over the air. But this does not hold for the new Podcast app. What happens when you still sync podcasts manually with iTunes? Do you get podcast episodes twice? where do they appear? Why do video podcasts still appear in the videos app?
For me this is all quite messy at the moment.
I mean, when you enable iTunes Match you can no longer sync music from iTunes on Mac because it goes over the air. But this does not hold for the new Podcast app. What happens when you still sync podcasts manually with iTunes? Do you get podcast episodes twice? where do they appear? Why do video podcasts still appear in the videos app?
For me this is all quite messy at the moment.
I guess its popular to pile on Apple when they make a mistake.
I know I like to do it! This app has been awful. Bad UI, which doesnt even work sometimes. Bad features badly organized. Crashes. Its worse than playing podcasts directly in the iTunes Store, and thats saying something!
I know I like to do it! This app has been awful. Bad UI, which doesnt even work sometimes. Bad features badly organized. Crashes. Its worse than playing podcasts directly in the iTunes Store, and thats saying something!