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Apple Delays Launch of Podcasts Subscriptions Until June
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Apple went from being and early benefactor of podcasts, to the greatest promoter of them, to a confused state where they seem to have considered podcasts competition for Apple Music & sabotaged the podcasts app with the worst design choices they could make for a decade, and now this.
Quite an arc.
Quite an arc.
They need to figure out syncing between devices and getting played status sorted out first.
Wow. Yeah no. Podcast support on Apple apps has been broken for a decade. The podcast experience was better on my OG Shuffle 15 years ago. The native app has never worked right. As for "they don't rush in with half baked products and services," uh.. yeah. Ping was a rushed half baked service. Airpods Max, that don't even support Apple's own lossless audio spec, is a rushed half baked product. The butterfly keyboard was a rushed half baked product.
Apple is not infallible, and this sort of blind idolatry does neither then nor the consumers any favors.
I've been listening to podcasts for 16 years, and I can assure you providers with content worth monetizing have never had a problem doing so even without big daddy Apple taking their cut *ahem* I mean giving them a hand.
Yabutapple. It is only awesome if apple does it, come on, you don't know this about apple yet?
Is this sarcasm? Never releasing half baked products? What about AM, Maps, iCloud, MobileMe, Ping, AM Connect, iBooks Author, the TV app, the Remote app, Apple Watch Series 0, the iPod Nano without buttons, Siri, …
And it’s not like long standing titles like iWorks are at the forefront of innovation either.
don’t forget AirPods Max, HomePod...
pretty a poor track record. Generally speaking though, if it’s apple software, run away
That app is a nightmare. On my iPod (yes still using a nano) it throws podcasts into different categories although they are one series (e.g. Serial from NPR is in 3 different folders), I cannot select manually which episodes I want to download but am forced to either all, last 10, last 5 etc. This a user un-experience.
Yep, like Raspberry Pi Foundation/Trading. They wait until the product is ready before announcing it.
Exactly - I’m hoping Spotify does audiobooks so I’ve been waiting. Not sure I’d pay to hear a podcast though.
Please tell me my sarcasm meter is broken. Referring to the latest release of the Podcast app as half baked would be a kindness it doesn’t deserve. Apple seems to have forgotten to hire any staff in User Interface dept for at least a decade.
The Podcasts app itself is excellent. They've delayed the subscriptions aspect in order to perfect the experience.
You can use the Ram just not with one App. I would not be surprised if that wasn’t resolved next week. They wanted to release it and have more potential beta testing for the new iPadOS using the new unit with the ram. If so, they would want more devices out there testing software before announcing pro apps for iPad on the 7th.
I downloaded iPadOS 14.5 on a relative's iPad to check it out. The changes make the new Podcast app unuseable.
Specifically:
* Currently when I am done listening to an episode, episode disappears into a diff pile where it sits for 24 hours before being deleted. This doesn't happen with 14.5 where the episode continues to sit there, except with the tag "played." You need to manually DEL it yourself.
* When I save certain episodes, they end up in a separate/new list. On 14.5, they continue to sit on the same list, except with a tag indicating it has been saved.
* Currently when one episode ends, the next episode on the list is automatically played. This doesn't happen on 14.5 where another episode plays but I cannot figure out the logic as to how it chooses which episode is played next.
* on my Podcast app I can clearly see which episodes I have, and they are grouped based on what podcast they belong to. In the new app, only one podcast shows up in SHOWS section. All the other ones only show up on the DOWNLOADS section. This makes no sense.
I will not upgrade to iOS 14.5 or 14.6.
The media apps (Music, Podcasts, TV) on both iOS and macOS seem like they we designed and built by developers just working for a paycheck—those apps are just a money grab now.
Maybe Apple outsourced the development of those apps...?
Maybe Apple outsourced the development of those apps...?
Both of these have been default behaviors since at least iOS 13, and are configurable in Settings.