![]() Presenting this decision to change lifetime access to a monthly sub as a gift to users because it only takes effect three years from now? Wow, I'm so impressed by your generosity, you sure did the right thing, please pat yourself on the back harder. This para is probably the most disgusting one. It doesn't matter if you paid 5 years ago, or just last month, we're going to gift each and every one of you with three years of Pocket Casts Plus. Integration with the desktop version is very much a "feature" which is now literally being locked behind a paywall.īefore you freak out, we want to let you know that we want to do the right thing by everyone who has ever paid for the web and desktop apps. Sorry guys, nice try but that's still a lie. I guess they're trying to skate by on the technicality that they're only referring to the Android app here, as if that's not part of a larger ecosystem including the desktop version which people also paid for. We aren't locking any existing features behind a paywall. And they wouldn't have taken seven paragraphs of buttering up the reader before sharing the bad news. A human being with a sense of shame would have titled it "We're now charging monthly, and here's why". ![]() What an insult to the users.įirst they title this post: "We're now free, and here's why." As if users are the beneficiaries here. The price change and the way it's communicated as well. Support, features and many more awesome things in the future. Point where we’ll stick around to keep it up to date. We’ve built the web player that we want to use. If you like what you see, we'll ask you for $9. No monthly subscriptions or freemium hoo-ha. If they had any integrity they would honour their commitments to existing customers.Įdit: Went on the Wayback Machine and found this on landing page from around the time I purchased the webplayer: There is nothing wrong with subscription models if that's what customers know they are signing up to. ![]() I don't care about any of the other "plus" benefits. They've bait-and-switched it for a delayed subscription model and my lifetime purchase has become a 3-year purchase. I paid for the web player because it was a one-time purchase. So I've got my fingers crossed that PC continues to be developed and supported, and so far it does what I want.This is a huge slap in the face for existing customers. I have no idea how I could possibly do all that in Apple Podcasts. That's the way I have always listened to podcasts, going back at least a decade. I use PC lists by topic, as well as by episode length (so I can listed to a really short one when I have time), and one by most-recently-added. With PC I subscribe (but don't auto-download) over 120 podcasts *I auto-download only around 10), and when new episodes come in I use the main page to show me what's been updated, and I read the episode info to decide whether or not to download. From time to time I try using Apple Podcasts but I just can't wrap my head around the user interface. I migrated to Pocket Casts in 2016 from the increasingly buggy Downcast, then bought the web app access (which I almost never use). Many times podcasts on Apple or Spotift don't show up in search and I have to manually websearch for the podcasts, grab a feed URL then paste it into PC for it to show it. The only issue I have is that the new podcast search doesn't work well. But I never had it rewind more than that. PC does have the checkbox option to rewind a podcast a few (maybe 5) seconds after an extended pause - which I find very useful.
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