Rule of Google: if it works, kill it.

I know, I know, using Google apps isn’t the best, but this was a perfectly good Podcast app with all the features you might want.

Apparently they’re moving everything over to YouTube Music, where a lot of the features of Google Podcasts aren’t implemented yet.

I’ve moved over to an app from F-Droid.

  • youngalfred@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    I don’t really understand how they consistently manage to screw things up. And they always say that the features are coming, but they never do.

    I’m still bitter over Inbox.

    I used to be excited about new things from Google. Tried to get into every beta, downloaded the newest released apps etc. But not anymore.

    I just read about tasks being removed from Google Keep. Then the feature removal from nest hubs. Do they have a unified strategy at all? Or is it just the whims of a manager’s daily musings that drive what development does?

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Man, Inbox was so good. I still start typing “inbox” into the address bar to get to my emails.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      It’s a company culture thing. You’re not rewarded for maintaining or finishing products. You are rewarded for starting new ones.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        You’re not rewarded for maintaining or finishing products.

        No kidding.

        It is 2024, and here is your yearly reminder that you still can’t create a new folder/label in the official Gmail Android app despite the online documentation implying that you can.

        • foggenbooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Android users literally run their lives out of Google Calendar. Think you can share your calendar with a friend from your phone? Think again. It’s back to the 10 year old desktop interface for you!

          Oh you’re not at home at your computer, well, try using the desktop version of Google Calandar on your phone’s browser. I dare you.

  • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    This is exactly why I never started using this app. Not worth investing my time. Still on Pocket Casts for years

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      5 months ago

      You self hosters are worse than crossfitters and mountaineers, always stretching to find ways to slip it into conversations. Quit making me feel feelings about how I’m not hosting my own cloud services and just using whatever Google shit exists.

    • Cringe2793@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      5 months ago

      I use it for audiobooks already, does it do podcasts well? As in, do I need to download the podcasts somehow and put it in like an audiobook?

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      Fine. I finally installed f-droid, because while I don’t listen to a lot of podcasts, I am trying to listen to more, and YT Music is ass for finding new podcasts.

      Please give me recommendations for more podcasts that may like based on what I got

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        5 months ago

        TrashFuture is great if you want to be amused/depressed by tech journalist news.

        Lions Led By Donkeys is a great war history podcast series.

        Neither have ads, which I really value in any podcast. Probably the only reason I don’t subscribe to BtB.

  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    Sorry - the data we used to spy on you for through this app, is now available to us by spying on other apps and devices. Its therefore too expensive for us to keep running it when it is no longer necessary

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      5 months ago

      I mean, at some level, how many podcast apps do we need?

      But on the other hand, you’re fucking Google and this is a glorified RSS feed. Why is it so hard for this company to maintain quality apps? The Google graveyard is filled with so many good ideas.

  • A_Porcupine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    This is weird marketing, why not just say “we’re merging Google podcast and YouTube music into one app”?

    • Frostbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      Pocket Cast is still decent. But they increased the sub prices a lot recently. I was still on an old plan, so I don’t know what I’ll do when it expires. What bugs me more is podcast releasing exclusively on certain platforms. Congratulations, you just reinvented radio