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Apple's Podcasts Just Topped 50 Billion All-time Downloads and Streams (fastcompany.com)
Apple launched podcasts on iTunes way back in 2005, the same year that the Oxford Dictionary named "podcast" its word of the year. A lot has changed since the early days when iTunes was mostly populated with The Ricky Gervais Show and an assortment of news podcasts repackaged from radio shows. From a report: These days, according to Apple, it is home to over 525,000 active shows, with more than 18.5 million episodes available, including content in over 100 languages. Its podcasts span the globe, covering 155 countries and, per Apple, "29 groupings of localized editorial." In short, if you feel overwhelmed with podcast content -- you're not alone. As content has grown, so has the fanbase: In 2014, there were 7 billion podcast downloads. In 2016, that number jumped to 10.5 billion. In 2017, it jumped to 13.7 billion episode downloads and streams, across Podcasts and iTunes. In March 2018, Apple Podcasts passed 50 billion all-time episode downloads and streams.
I have a Netflix subscription, but I probably consume at least three times as much content through podcasts. There's far more variety in terms of content and while I don't think they'll replace all of television, I no longer see any point to late night television type shows where guest interviews only last a few minutes or there's 20 minutes of commercials in my 60 minutes program. There are even plenty of news focused podcasts that I think are vastly superior to what you find on Fox or CNN.
He's only with us in spirit now, but Steve Jobs invented this ecosystem out of thin air. Without him, we'd still be using flip-phones designed at the whims of the carriers. It's amazing to look at a modern phone and compare it to the original iPhone. In form and function, not much difference. That is the simplest way to see how "right" Jobs got it. Rest in peace, sir.
I'm trying Podcast Player - a generic enough name - it's got great reviews and I like the player itself, but the damned thing won't download a podcast without manual intervention despite that being what the program is for. I want to be able to ignore my phone at work all day and listen to the podcast it pulls in off of my companies WiFi while driving home without having to stop and think about it.
I used to use a program specific to my podcast that would usually pull it in without intervention, but the built in player sucked (I like 150% playback speed so I can hear more of the show while driving). It could launch VLC which used to solve those issues, but modern Android VLC is supper buggy. If I get a phone call while listening to a podcast there's about a 60% chance it will forget it's spot and start me over at the beginning of the file.
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Podcasts will arbitrarily stop. Apple will say you are no longer subscribed. Who cares if I'm subscribed. I'm listening to podcasts. I don't need to be subscribed. Finding the podcast you were listening to in their online app is time consuming.
I only use iTunes because I have an airport device in the bathroom that I can use to listen while getting ready for work. There's nothing like taking a shower and half way through the podcast just stops.
It is a horrible product. I'm tired of it.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
50 billion, that's cute...suckers.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
... catch up on my "Welcome To Nightvale" listening.
Like the article said...There are just a ton of Podcasts out there and it's hard to find things to look for. You can use FluidDATA to search millions of Podcasts by phrase or mention. That's right, searches are run against the full transcript of millions of audio files. You can check it out here: https://fluiddata.com/
I agree. What a GREAT channel.
Who would've thought...?
Pictures at 11.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
So a lot of podcasts, but how many of them are any good?
For those not aware: the guy was banned from Slashdot because he wouldn't stop talking about how it's OK to marry children from 3rd world nations.
Chris' case is getting worse, he spends all day replying to himself as AC on /. and now, on YouTube in order to grab attention!
The tests we ran on Chris have shown that Chris has the intelligence of an ameba:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So, technically, he is able to conceive some kind of agenda but it will be silly or impossible to follow on a human scale.
For example, Chris had an agenda to post anything he felt like on Slashdot which did not work well because it was based on his false beliefs that he had an infinite number of karma points as he wrote here several times.
Several people here explained to Chris that karma maxed out at some level like 50 or so but Chris kept on insisting that his python script had confirmed that he had millions of karma points!
Oh well, as I wrote before: "It isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody."
For the valuable /. users that might already have read the following, please note that there is an important update.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education has invested money to buy Chris a new chair:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...
Information about Christopher Dale Reimer and autistic people:
Autistic people have obsessions about things normal people don't care. For example, one of our autistic patient went haywire when he realized that there was a penny missing in his pocket change.
To calm him down, one of our educator pretended to have found it on the floor and gave a penny to him.
The autistic patient condition went even worse because he realized it wasn't the same penny!
Chris has an obsession with budgeting every penny. He doesn't understand that most people do not budget to the penny and have a flexible amount they allow for miscellaneous items.
I am Nancy Guerrero and I am Director of Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education. We use Chris' (a.k.a. creimer,cdreimer) picture in our document because he is the hardest case we have ever had to handle:
http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu...
Our artists were inspired by the low carb diet that Christopher follows scrupulously for the small lunch box and by the picture linked below for the rest. I am sure that you will notice the similarities such as the bump on the side of his chest and more:
https://ibb.co/gVad65
Please be easy on Christopher although, I am aware that some of our staff handling Chris post joke comments here and obvoiusly, the Santa Clara County Office of Education disapprove that behavior vehemently:
http://ibb.co/mRVSaG
But it isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody.
Thank You dear users,
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Nancy Guerrero
Director
Special Education
Santa Clara County Office of Education
"Apple's podcasts"?
Do they claim ownership or something? Other than the fact that "pod"casts are misnamed after the iPod, they really preceed the iPod and really have nothing otherwise to do with Apple.
I'm currently subscribed to 8-9 different podcasts, have been so for at least a decade, and I've never owned any Apple hardware, nor have I ever installed any Apple software.
How are these "Apple's podcasts" again?