Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?

Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by samdunham on Sunday February 09, 2020 @09:20PM (#22285883)

For the most part, the podcasts I listen to are independent. I'm not all that concerned about a megacorp coming in and destroying things. If Apple and Google couldn't do it, I think we're okay for a while.

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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by oefrha on Sunday February 09, 2020 @10:40PM (#22286259)

> If Apple and Google couldn't do it

Apple sat on a de facto monopoly on the podcast player market for a vey long time and simply left it alone. They absolutely could have ruined it. They just didn’t.

I’m not sure about the Android ecosystem (it was pretty much irrelevant for the podcast market until relatively recently anyway), but did Google even try?

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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by squiggleblaz on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:06AM (#22287502)

Google barely even touches podcasts. I'm not sure if there's a "default podcast app" on Android.

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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by arkitaip on Monday February 10, 2020 @07:47AM (#22288600)

There is an app called Google Podcasts (com.google.android.apps.podcasts) but I don't think it's an Android default.

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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by wyxuan on Sunday February 09, 2020 @09:35PM (#22285949)

spotify has also decided to say editorially independent from podcast making, just look at Gimlet

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