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.
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.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Actually Apple does allow it, but yeah, Spotify is a bad citizen here. I only used Google Podcasts once or twice, but good on them for giving the option. At least for as long as they were around.