• Google intending on bringing podcasts to Google Play in the next few months
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[url]http://recode.net/2015/10/27/google-brings-podcasting-to-play-music-swinging-at-apples-dominance/[/url] [quote=Re/code]From their earliest days, podcasts were linked closely to Apple. Their very name came from an Apple product: iPod. Apple included podcasts in its music app before spinning out a separate iPhone app in 2012, then made it un-deletable last year, just in time for a boom in the format thanks to the wildly popular “Serial” series from This American Life. It’s Google’s turn now. The Alphabet company is getting ready to open a dedicated home for podcasts on its Google Play hub. Today the company is letting podcast creators upload shows to Google Play Music, its streaming service; it says listeners will be able to listen to those shows “in the coming months.” It will be, remarkably, the first native app for podcast listening on Android in the content market where Apple carries disproportionate weight. But Google isn’t just trying to create more Serial fanatics on Android. No, it wants to reach people that have never listened to podcasts. And it wants to broaden its media offerings in the fight with Apple, the frequent go-to platform for media producers.[/quote]
That's great. I always wondered why there was no native support for podcasts or at least a google made podcast app.
About time, I have always thought this was an glaring omission from the google ecosystem.
[QUOTE=Dr McNinja;48995188]That's great. I always wondered why there was no native support for podcasts or at least a google made podcast app.[/QUOTE] There was one, Google Listen. It used Google Reader to hold all the RSS feeds. When Google Reader was shut down a few years ago, Listen went with it.
Podcasts are one of the main reason I switched to iphone, all the 3rd party apps on the playstore were garbage. Hopefully its good enough to switch back.
Apparently Spotify brought podcasts a while back, don't think they were massively successful though.
This is pretty cool, I just recently resurrected an iPod mini with the addition of a new battery and 32GB flash card. Been listening to quite a few podcasts since.
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