It will be interesting to see what he will come up with as all of the current podcast apps IMO leave a lot to be desired. Also interesting considering Apple resently released a podcasting app.
Maybe it's just me, but I consider purchasing Downcast a mistake. Complete lack of subtlety. Annoying noises to refresh and check for new podcasts, by default, seriously?
I'm interested to see what he comes up with. Given their main job, playing podcasts, most existing apps seem good enough. I use Downcast, and generally like it. There are some things I would prefer worked differently, but 10 people might have 10 different sets of minor annoyances, so I wonder if Overcast will be better for me.
The thing is, I'll probably buy it just to see anyway, and so will many others. For Marco, a customer that buys his app to try it out gives him the same (or more) profit as someone who uses it regularly. As long as it's good enough to suit some people best, he'll have a steady stream of people buying it to see if it suits them best.
Ideally, when you wake up in the morning, a great podcast app will open with an auto-generated playlist featuring your favourite podcasts that have new episodes released for that day, already downloaded and ready to go.
If you can't just press play on your podcast app and jump in your car or on your treadmill and have it play something you want to listen to without having to micro manage it beforehand, it's not a great podcast app.
I know of no podcast apps that can do this yet. So there is a lot of work to do in this field.
Typical Marco: "I respect you too much to put up an email solicitation box or fake queue."
It's not enough to have good taste, you have to point out to people what good taste you have, in case they miss it. Which, ironically, is in poor taste.
While I do think Marco is often arrogant, in this case it seems he's just expressing frustration at other landing pages that he's seen. I think we should cut him some slack.
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 29.3 ms ] threadThe thing is, I'll probably buy it just to see anyway, and so will many others. For Marco, a customer that buys his app to try it out gives him the same (or more) profit as someone who uses it regularly. As long as it's good enough to suit some people best, he'll have a steady stream of people buying it to see if it suits them best.
If you can't just press play on your podcast app and jump in your car or on your treadmill and have it play something you want to listen to without having to micro manage it beforehand, it's not a great podcast app.
I know of no podcast apps that can do this yet. So there is a lot of work to do in this field.
It's not enough to have good taste, you have to point out to people what good taste you have, in case they miss it. Which, ironically, is in poor taste.