One Thing Stitcher’s Podcast App Got Right
Sirius XM may be closing the popular Stitcher app, but the app should be congratulated for using open standards that make it easy to move your subscriptions to another podcast app.
Tag: overcast
A third way to make money from mobile apps
First up, I consider Overcast the best mobile podcast clients currently available. Marco Arment’s client has grown over the years and developed almost every feature that I could want. The only trouble he’s had is trying to create a solid income from it. Following the initial one-year subscription model, then a patronage-based model, he’s now looking at a third option: Ads are the great compromise: money needs to come from somewhere, and the vast majority of people choose free-with-ads over direct payment. Ads need not be a bad thing: when implemented respectfully, all parties can get what they want. Most
Overcast improves my favourite podcast player
Overcast has been updated to version 2.5. It’s my podcast player of choice and while I wasn’t screaming out for some of the optional extras only open to patrons (a dark theme and ability to upload your own single files) the changes to battery consumption and the sound output are very much welcome. It’s a free download, but you can make a small one-off payment as a thank you through an in-app payment. Grab it from overcast.fm.
