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This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more! (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Google Podcasts also supported entering RSS feeds manually.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah true. Companies are great at hiding the open web that they (ab)use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not at launch. Google Play Music did, iirc, which is why I switched to Podcast Addict when GPM lost podcast support and they launched Google Podcasts. 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.