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At this rate they'll kill search and only do ads and bard
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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Cunts. Already switched to Antennapod.
Another Google product bites the dust.
Reminder that Google is supposedly a real tech company, yet they've failed at:
- Podcasts
- Whiteboards
- Domains
- AB testing tools
- Phone services
- Phone contracts
- Physical albums
- Copying other companies
- Copying other companies
- Chatbots
- A different chatbot
- Social media
- Social media
- Social media
- Social media
- Gaming
- Video calls
- Video calls
- Video calls
- Music
- Music
- Selling routers
- Making TV Shows
- Selling TV Shows
- Streaming TV Shows
- Surveys
- Video hosting
- File storage
- Website building
- Bookmark managers
- Shopping
- VR
- VR
- Home assistants
(No, I don't have any repetitions, yes I missed a few)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Now, a new support article details Google's plans to kill the product, with a shutdown coming in April 2024.
I think all the core podcast features exist somewhere, but they are buried in several menus.
There are more podcast-centric features sequestered away in YouTube Music, where a button with the very confusing label "Save to library" will subscribe to a podcast feed.
Music is a different interface, site, and app, so none of these billions of YouTube viewers are seeing these podcast features.
But this is the future of Google's podcast content, so the company is plowing ahead with it.
If you're looking to get off Google's wild ride and want something straightforward that works across platforms, I recommend Pocket Casts.
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