KilledByGoogle feasting good recently.
I don’t understand why they don’t make Google Podcasts a front end to YT. A dedicated podcast app would be much better IMO, YT music sucks as is.
I LOVED Google Play Music. Hands down, one of the best music streaming services I’ve used. And then they killed it. And replaced it with a totally not-fit-for-purpose YT Music app that couldn’t even load the full list of artists in my library (scroll, wait for load, scroll, wait for load).
And now this.
Having used Android as my daily driver since the HTC Dream, I moved over to Apple a year ago. I miss many things about Android but the constant death of great but poorly/zero marketed products and services isn’t one of them.
Best way to use an Android is to stay as far away as you can from Google products or at least minimize it.
Protonmail, Organic Maps/Magic Earth, Signal, Firefox, Spotify, Newpipe, AntennaPod and so on.
I’m so impressed with how much third party mapping has improved. Especially Magic Earth - it locates me faster then Google maps, while not having a data connection out in the boonies. Like in 2 seconds.
Even in the city GMaps never locates me anywhere near that fast.
Navigation in Magic is also fsr, far faster. Again, 2 to 3 seconds to map a route.
Still on Android here, but Apple Music is by far the best music experience (even on Android!) which I find quite amusing. Was a worthy replacement after GPM died.
RIP Google Podcasts. I’m not a fan of everything being moved under the YouTube branding, a platform I’ve come to associate with terrible ads, questionable algorithms, and the promotion of misinformation.
YouTube music is pretty good though. Kinda makes sense for them to merge them.
I use both apps, this doesn’t really change much for me.
If I wanted to use YT Music I’d already be using it. Podcasts and music are not the same thing. Anyway…
There are some good alternatives out there, like Antennapod.
.youtube tld exists?
I understand the hate YT Music has for its history of being released as a big mess, but nowadays the app its actually pretty good. And having the podcasts inside the YT Music will help the podcasts that release in video to have both in the same place and interchangeable (is that a word?).
