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Apple PR said:

Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans.

… or you could open the Terminal and type “sudo xattr -cr”, drop the app on the window, press return, type your admin password and press return again. Boom, problem solved.

Thatguy2 said:

Kamala is the democrat nominee? Who voted for her. Oh yeah no one. I remember now. She stole it from Joe, who we did vote for in the primary. Now that’s the decorum of cheating and stealing. Yup she’s just like us

She was part of the package because her boss/WH mate didn’t try to get her hanged by a mob and, much like she would be his automatic successor should he kick the bucket or resign, she was also the natural one when he dropped out. You might make that argument for Walz, but the same logic applies to unelected VPs in those succession scenarios, so… there’s a clear precedent of trusting POTUSes to pick their mates, and I don’t see why it should be any different for presidential candidates.

Also, much like the Electoral College holds the real and legal power in the General Election, the Party delegates also do in the Primaries and she secured their support – and, yes, votes – in a matter of days.

Quit whining and making a mountain out of a molehill, as if she was even the nominee of your party of choice.  You don’t care, and the fact that you are most definitely willing to vote for a guy who talked about suspending the US Constitution – and, thus, elections altogether – is proof positive of that.

gatorguy said:

frogbat said:

Would like to see apple introduce a video service - basically a more regulated and curated (and ad free) YouTube available to Apple TV subscribers for free.  Might incentivise people to head towards apple tv and not pony up for a YT sub if the content and creators adopt it enough...

Apple isn't interested in podcasts for just that reason: Free. If they can monetize a podcast service, perhaps, and "with ads" would be most likely IMO, but there's probably not enough potential revenue involved to bother. 

Nutshell version
Reportedly Apple offering podcasts doesn't help sell more hardware, so they have no incentive to invest in them. 

EDIT: PED agrees.
https://www.ped30.com/2024/08/23/apple-podcast-lost-way/

Let them try dropping the platform and associated apps… There would be a mutiny and, unlike Google, a company known to drop popular services left and right, Apple is no stranger to supporting old stuff…

For instance, it took them YEARS to drop their also seemingly useless iTunes movie trailers website and app (believe it or not, they stayed live until around a year ago), and they only did so because they had a replacement in their Apple TV app and platform.

And I know, it sounds weird because they stop supporting older Mac and iPhone hardware all the time, but yeah, it's a fact. Case in point: my iPod 3G from 2004 still works and is fully supported by macOS Sonoma. Yeah, much like said website would be if it lasted a bit more, it's a 20-year-old peripheral. And I can still sync podcasts to it if I want. What a concept!

I will NEVER use any platform other than Apple Podcasts. NEVER. If it wasn't for iPods and iTunes way back when, podcasts wouldn't be the vibrant, DRM-free, royalty-free medium they are now.

And I like listening to podcasts, much like I enjoy reading media through RSS/Feedly/NetNewsWire, because I hate being completely dependent upon an algorithm, content blocking, etc. If I'm following a certain content producer, I want to make sure I have access to EVERYTHING new they produce, as they publish it, with no weird third-party curatorial shenanigans.