Comment on Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music

Resol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why? That one actually makes sense to consolidate.

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Youtube music is hot garbage.

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  • lessthanthree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not going to down vote you for disagreeing. I think the frustrations stem from the constant closure of apps. Whether it makes sense or not, it is annoying getting invested into a service and then it gets pulled away. I would say it’s essentially inevitable that any app or service you use today will lose support at some point. Google has a track record now of closing apps fairly early. I’m already finding that YouTube Music is getting features that I have no interest in using.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is understandable.

      I am using Spotify and my only true reliance on Google are their most successful products being YT, Android and Google Play store.
      So my experience with Google isnt that bad but I am totally aware of thr general sentimemt with that company.

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  • worsedoughnut@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I could understand consolidation when you’re as big as google and lot of these one-off apps (Duo, Allo, Podcasts, Measure, Hangouts, etc.) are all clearly just testing grounds for either specific features eventually destined for their mainline apps, or just neat ideas that never caught on and couldn’t be monetized enough to warrant keeping the service alive.

    The real issue is: they almost NEVER actually make the “consolidated” app reach feature parity with the one it gets folded into.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s also my reasoning.

      The real issue is: they almost NEVER actually make the “consolidated” app reach feature parity with the one it gets folded into.

      Yep.

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