Are you associated with Amazon? Because you're using two of their trademarks (Echo + Goodreads)

i think dannylmathews must be a Amazon affiliative otherwise his product would most likely be illegal name-wise

What???

You can not trademark echo for different areas. And podcast is different.

This way of reasoning makes me speachless.

P.s. goodreads might be a case though.

Hey, I am not affiliated with Amazon. Fair point on using Goodreads. I'm just using that name so people quickly get an idea of the product ex) how people pitch their ideas as Uber for X

Amazon won't see it that way. If not now, then when you get big.

Your legal knowledge has left me speachless.

Amazon has very generic trademarks on the word echo. Podcasts are a recorded format meant for playback that provides commentary on different categories. Amazon definitely holds trademarks on these types of areas. That said, I'm not a lawyer so I can't speak to how much issue the overlap would cause but regardless Amazon has billions of dollars and could walk all over anyone they want so I'm pretty sure if this got bigger and they took issue with the use of the name Echo they could cause a lot of hell.

There is a world beside US. Bigger actually.

In fact amazon can't have (generic 'echo' word trademark) and does not have it in any sane part of world. All sane states do not allow generic trademark on common word.

My speechless was (and still is) about how much brainwashed must we be to consider it fine, normal and to actually defend such practice. Yuck.

Nobody said it was fine or normal. The law is the law regardless of how depraved it may be, and you don't get immunity by being appalled.

By the way, Apple Computer (now just Apple) was sued by Apple Corps and had to pay $80k, and that was in England, not in the US.

Sure you can sue as you'd like, but in this case: * Apple never lost over trademark in court with Apple Corps and did not had to pay. * When Apple Corps tried to finally sue breach of trademark agreement (the one for 80k), they ultimately lost in front of court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer#c...

Apple Computer was not infringement of the agreement, but they had to pay $80k to get that agreement, because they may have infringed on the trademark. It's true that we don't known if they would have lost initially, but if it was clearly frivolous, they wouldn't have paid $80k to settle.

Hey, Intel has a trademark on the lower=case letter 'i'

Hey I tried to export my OPML file from Pocketcasts but Echo doesn't show up in the 'share to' app list or in the More... list. Any tips?

Got the same problem. I'm exporting from Downcast and there's no listing for Echo for open with.

Hey guys, working on a fix atm. I think it has something to do with me not recognizing the file as a proper XML. Will fix and push an update.

Cool thanks. I have a the same problem with Overcast

Fixed! Please update to the latest version to see the fix.

I can confirm that.

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I'm receiving an XML parsing error when trying to import OPML generated by the Windows app Grover Pro. Please see if you can identify what should be modified/added in the OPML file for a successful import, or if it's something on your app's side.

Cool project! Since this seems like something you've created yourself, can you share what stack you used to support both iOS and Android?

hey, I actually have been an iOS dev for ~5 years and this is my first native Android app. I totally get if you are a web dev and want to do a React Native app, but I believe it was quicker for me to do both natively. My server is in Node, and I used GraphQL and loved using it, I believe it made me ~30% faster than building a traditional REST API.

I'll check this out! I've been interested in creating an app that helps in discovery of streaming media around the web.

Could not import OPML from Casts so I couldn’t try out the app. Bummer because I was looking forward to it.