There are many high quality podcast apps out there, let us not centralize more power and data by using a Google/Apple/.. FAANG product in what is currently a healthy vertical

Another Inbox in the making.

Google Play music which became the far crappier Youtube Music and the various attempts at an Android FaceTime giving us long litany of buggy shortlived crap.

Focus on doing something good instead competing with everybody with rather shortlived sub par mediocre efforts.

To be fair, Duo is their one recent success story. Totally agree on the music Front though, what a bizzare mess that's turning out to be.

yeah.. they're probably shutting that one down..

How long do we expect this product to last?

Hey! Be nice! I'm certain I could listen to, at a minimum, 15 or maybe even 20 full length podcast episodes before this service is shutdown.

No point in switching if they can't give me an opml import... and no point in getting stuck if they won't give me an opml output[1].

[1] https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/google-podcasts-data-portability...

I use this nearly everyday. Hope it will last.

There are some functions I would love to see.

Being able to add notes while listening a podcasts.

Does not support custom RSS URLs. For this reason I'm using Podcast Republic, which is very nice.

I've used it but the interface is clunky. Navigation to the podcast is strange. You can't add rss. There have been no updates since the first release as far as I can tell. It looks like it has potential but it seems like yet another Google product that had a half assed release, no commitment and will be shelved in a year or two.

Pocketcasts is far better and the webui is cheap as can be so additional options for keeping up to date on podcasts.

> There has been no updates since first release as far as I can tell.

Their Android has had a few updates, when I started using it, it didn't have a sleep timer or speed setting. Not sure if it had "trim silence", but I never use that anyways.

Pocketcasts is one of the beautiful apps out there for podcasts, decent app that just works :)

The site took a full ~15 seconds to load for me. Not exactly a great start Google...