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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
Wow, that sucks. I just checked my podcasts, and around half are over 50 MB. I sync them to my iPod for listening at work, so it's not a huge issue for me, but that's just silly.
It also looks like Apple is trying to monetize podcasts with this app. That makes sense since they don't make money off them. While I'd like to see podcast creators make money, I prefer the current model. I don't find podcast ads annoying (except the stupid Pepsi spot Earwolf is playing) and I listen to enough of them that it could cost me quite a bit. I already pay for Never Not Funny, and if other shows were to have similar pricing I might have to scale down what I listen to.
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I don't quite understand. How?
This to me feels like a re-skinned version of what they already had going on. Podcasts from iTunes have always sucked in my opinion for several reasons. The inability to download large files has been present for years now, and it always takes a while for iTunes to find the podcast (usually about a day). An app like PocketCasts is far superior in my eyes and is actually beautifully designed. I love that I can specify the values for the skip forward/back buttons, and that the right and left side of the screen double as hidden buttons for those functions.
Apple's offering great for people just wanting to get into podcasts because it isn't lost within the maze of iTunes on the phone I suppose. Podcasts are easily some of the greatest content that many seem to overlook.