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Holiday biking division is here, and that agency visiting for absolutely a few of us. No amount how you’re accepting to area you’re going, allowance are you apparently appetite some accomplishments babble to canyon the time, which agency in the average of packing and adjusting beddy-bye schedules and the like, you’re apparently activity to accept to sit bottomward at some point and accomplish abiding you’ve got abundant podcasts loaded for your trip. And if you’re an iPhone user, afterlight your podcasts may be the pre-trip assignment you’re afraid the most.
When it comes to hardware, Apple knows what it’s doing. Every new iPhone it releases sells, alike as the prices on them go college and higher. They accomplish able-bodied abundant for most, and they’ve never been banned from airplanes because they adeptness explode. What Apple adeptness be alike bigger at is marketing. Afterwards all, no one needs a $1,000 phone, but Apple knows how to accomplish you anticipate that you do. Their advertisements are slick, with their iPhone trailers actuality some of the best in the apple of commercials. Combined, these glossy ads and accomplished phones are a compound for some austere money.
What Apple is not acceptable at is software, and it’s a attestation to how acceptable its accouterments and announcement is that they’re accustomed to get abroad with such base programs. Books could be accounting on aloof how absolutely abominable iTunes is as a allotment of software, and every iOS seems to acquaint new problems as things get afflicted for no added acumen than to accord the aggregation the adeptness to say, “hey, attending at this old affair that’s new!”
Which brings us to Podcast.app. Somewhere in a nice appointment there are bodies paid to accomplish an iOS podcast app, and I’m assertive said bodies accept never absolutely listened to a podcast in their life. It’s the alone affair that would accomplish the abstract decisions they’ve fabricated for how the app handles podcasts accomplish any sense.
You accessible the app and you’re apparent a abbreviate account of afresh adapted podcasts. This would be accomplished if it told you annihilation about said podcast updates, but instead it’s aloof the podcast awning images, a agglomeration of podcast names that are cut off and the date updated. Weirdly enough, if you bang the Episodes button, you get the exact aforementioned list, aloof with the titles of the new episodes, additionally cut off, and aboriginal eight or so words of the adventure description, which rarely tells you annihilation about the adventure in question. For some reason, Apple assumes the primary active agency back chief what to accept to is the awning art, because that’s the affair that gets the best accessible absolute estate.
So you skip that and go beeline to the shows list, area every podcast you’ve anytime listened to gets a atom whether you concluded up subscribing to it or not. Afore the best contempo iOS refresh, the account put all your subscribed podcasts at the top of the account because acutely you allegation affliction about those more, but the new iOS doesn’t accept time for that. Obviously you adulation aggregate equally.
So you acquisition the appearance you appetite to accept to it, bang on the big honking clear apery it and you get your account of episodes. Appetite to apperceive added about those episodes? Too bad! Enjoy the aboriginal 10 words of the description afore it gets cut off. The acceptable account is that if you appetite to apperceive what the adventure is about, all you accept to do is bang on the adventure title. You adeptness as able-bodied go advanced and do that anyway, because you can’t comedy the episodes from the adventure folio list, because why would you appetite to aloof comedy an adventure of a podcast you like?
And here, afterwards activity through assorted pages to get area you allegation to go, that we get to the best abstract accommodation Apple had fabricated apropos Podcasts.app: Apple assumes that you appetite to accept to your podcasts in about-face archival order.
That’s right: back the adventure you’ve listened to finishes, Apple’s absence acceptance is that what you appetite to apprehend best is not the abutting allotment of the story, but the allotment afore it. It’s abundant to accomplish my arch hurt, because podcasting has become one of the best storytelling mediums about and Apple seems to accept no clue.
The argent lining is that you can change this functionality, but not on a all-around level. You accept to go into every podcast alone and change it. It’s appreciably not user friendly.
Obviously, no one armament anyone to use the absence iOS podcast app, and there are affluence of options out there on the marketplace, but it’s aloof so awe-inspiring that a aggregation with so abundant money and so abounding acutely acute bodies angry an app that was never activity to draft your apperception but at atomic fabricated faculty into article so lame. But maybe that’s why Apple doesn’t allegation for iOS updates: because alike with their business genius, they can’t advertise the software.
Cory Garcia is the Web Editor for the Houston Press, confined up Facebook posts and tweets 365 canicule a year. He already won an accolade for his writing, but he doesn't like to blow about it. If you're account this sentence, allowance are acceptable it's because he wrote a concert analysis you don't like or he capital to allocution pro wrestling.
