That’s google’s strategy though.
Although they let you have full control and don’t force you to use their apps, it’s setup so the majority just use the defaults and are discouraged to sway away from google’s ways.
Its fully intentional.
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Zak@lemmy.world 7 months agomigrating everything - including podcasts - to YouTube
If only there were other apps for podcasts on Android, it would be a viable operating system.
Google is kind of crap, but Android has a lot more built-in escape hatches than iOS does. People don’t seem to use them as much as I’d hoped, but they’re available.
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RGB3x3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is there a podcast app that automatically plays podcasts in the correct order (oldest to newest)?
I’ve tried a bunch of podcast apps and none of them seem to do that like Google podcasts did, unless I’m using them wrong.
zombaya01@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Antennapod can do that. You can define the sort order per show.
webhead@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pocketcasts fixed that a while ago. You can set the sorting of episodes for each podcast and then it plays in that order.
tonytins@pawb.social 7 months ago
While I totally agree, the average Joe is just going to gravitate to whomever controls the ecosystem. Kinda hard to trust a higher authority who Google can’t even get their in-house shit together.
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Are you implying that the average user doesn’t know how to install an app? My 80 yo parents do that on their samsung tablet.
No need to trust any higher authorities, whatever that means
BReel@lemmy.one 7 months ago
I think they mean the average person isn’t going to take the time to check 20 different contacts apps in the store to find the perfect one, then do it again with every other basic app on their phone.
They’re just gonna use the default app 99%
tonytins@pawb.social 7 months ago
I’m implying that people choose the path of least resistance.
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Gotcha, sorry misunderstood
PhreakyByNature@feddit.uk 7 months ago
I’ve been using Podcast Addict for years now. Dunno why people think they are bound to one thing when Android offers so many choices.
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I think they’re just have choice paralysis. There’s too much stuff on Android, and picking something is really rather anoying.
Something like a Gallery. There’s probably a 1000 galleries on Play Store, 50% of them are “my first app”, that display a fullscreen ad every other photo.
You have to know what you want, research it, then get it. Non-nerds don’t really care about that.
My guess. I’m a nerd who does care about all that.
gunpachi@lemmings.world 7 months ago
You do have a point, but each App’s play store page itself shows whether it has ads or in-app purchases. One can use that as an indicator for selecting an app. So people just need to pay attention to the small text right below the App’s title
example
Then there is always f-droid . You can find really good quality software without ads in fdroid. I rarely use the play store these days (except when I have to update whatsapp and banking apps)
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Again, you’re telling this to an android nerd. I’m aware.
I’m speaking from a perspective of an average joe, who is 100% not aware of the existance of F-droid or is convinced that it’s malware.
I’m also don’t expect people sift through hundreds of apps, opening each page and checking permissions/ads/reviews.
People install apps either because they’ve heard about it on TV/whatever, or a friend told them to install this specific app.
This is why people rely on default apps, and compare “phones” based on that.
aniki@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I will confess I used Google podcasts for years not realizing that the FOSS alternatives were MASSIVE improvements.