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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by scrollaway on Thursday February 21, 2019 @06:59PM (#19221851)
Insanity. There should be competition but compatibility. It shouldn't be about "one true player" as in one proprietary platform everyone uses (youtube vs spotify vs whatever), but rather every player is compatible with all of the formats.

The proprietary-lockin epidemic is a serious issue. I think part of the problem is open standards don't often focus on the payments problem.

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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by sh87 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:48PM (#19222707)
For dominant content distributors and platforms, there is real economic incentive for chasing deep lock-ins. And practically no incentive to comply with or contribute to any sort of standard. That is the unfortunate reality today.

If we have reasonably good competition among these platforms, we may just have some hope there.

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