Comment on This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more!
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 months agoAs a point of order, AntennaPod doesn’t “have” any podcasts; they’re all publicly available in a web standard RSS format, so you can get those podcasts on any podcast aggregator/player like Overcast, Podcast Addict, or (my personal favorite) Pocket Casts. In that vein, I recommend choosing your podcast player based on features, not availability.
hayalci@fstab.sh 11 months ago
Google Podcasts also supported entering RSS feeds manually.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, but what I’m trying to say is that, functionally, that’s really all podcasts are. Google Podcasts (and many other podcast aggregators) glosses it over with some really shiny interface that lets you find shows better, and Spotify locks those RSS feeds behind a paywall, but at its core that’s all a podcast is. So AntennaPod doesn’t “also have them,” they’re the exact same product.
hayalci@fstab.sh 11 months ago
Ah true. Companies are great at hiding the open web that they (ab)use.
hayalci@fstab.sh 11 months ago
Otoh, Spotify (and probably apple and other big corps) don’t even allow you to add RSS URLs, so I wanted to point out they Google was one of the big players which was more open.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Not at launch. GPM did, iirc. People complaining that Google Podcasts is another incidence of “Google replaced a good app with a bad one” are missing the detail that this is also Google Podcasts’ origin story. Get off the treadmill.
I do feel genuinely bad for any developers who had to work on a dead-end product like that though.