The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle. It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat features, immediately seems to forget it exists, eventually launches a competitor out of some other part of the company, obviously begins to deprecate it and shift focus to the new competitor, and then, years later, finally shuts it down for real. The Google Graveyard is full of apps like Reader, Duo, Inbox, Allo, Wallet, and countless others that have been through The Google Cycle, and it feels just as bad every time.
google has a habit of killing things randomly how are you surprised?
Someone still had faith in Google???
Nuff Said. I’m just going to leave this here : https://killedbygoogle.com
Why do people use these crap apps when podcasting is the only media which, from it’s inception, is entirely liberated? You can get a FLOSS app and access pretty much everything. Anything you can’t access doesn’t deserve your attention.
People still have faith to lose?
I’ve been using this app and have really liked it. Please tell me that I chose well and it doesn’t have hidden problems: https://antennapod.org/
Been using AntennaPod for years now. No complaints from my end.
Antennapod definitely is the GOAT. Been using it for years, it only got better. I hate the whole “podcast app” thing and like to just simply subscribe to RSS feeds and automatically download my podcasts and Antennapod does that for me. It’s so out of the way.
Cant search for individual podcast episodes, otherwise pretty good and my podcast app of choice.
Pocket casts is the other one i’d suggest.
Podverse a DISTANT third. But it has one feature I like and thats sorting episodes by listens.
Edit: my other issue with antennapod is being unable to listen to an episode of a podcast without subscribing. You have to subscribe. Even to open the podcast page you have to subscribe.
As long as Google keeps making Pixel phones that support the installation of GrapheneOS, I’ll still be using at least one Google product. Ironically, to specifically get away from the rest of Google.
Wish there was another platform for graphene. Can’t stand the lackluster modem reception on the pixels. But yes!
You could try postmarketOS
Interesting, looks like their phone support is a bit limited, but something to keep an eye on.
When did they kill Wallet? I continue to use it every day. Just added another membership yesterday, in fact.
WOW, that’s what it took, eh?
