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Re:Apple has ruined its podcasts app by josephxanderson on Friday December 08, 2017 @09:47PM (#15883972)
To be fair, all iOS internal Apple apps that you can remove are like this in the app store. And although they appear to be decoupled from iOS completely, updates aren't pushed out through the App Store either.
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Re:Apple has ruined its podcasts app by dbbk on Saturday December 09, 2017 @05:09PM (#15888450)
I don't think they are really decoupled from iOS. Updates are still delivered through iOS updates. I think it's in the App Store because when people remove it from their homescreen, the logical place they're going to search for it to bring it back would be searching in the App Store. But it's not an actual app delivered by the App Store, if that makes sense.
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Re:Apple has ruined its podcasts app by josephxanderson on Friday December 15, 2017 @08:48AM (#15931744)
The only reason I say this is because it appears it does actually have to download back onto your device. So I'm not totally sure.
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