Discovering the Web

Apple finally released the Podcast web app and, in the last few weeks, the Maps’ beta web app too. It was about time that Apple decided to take the web more and better into account in their solutions’ carnet. Better late than never.

Apple has always invested little and badly in its web platforms, prioritizing applications to accompany its fairy ecosystem. It is understandable, but Mail.app, for example, on the web is hell—the system app stops in purgatory. A user who is unable to use their Apple devices will tear their eyes accessing the web version of their mail client.

Anyway, this has been an occasion to discuss my certainties with the podcast client. I’ve downloaded and tested again Apple Podcast, comparing it with Pocket Casts—that have a web version by years.

It’s about my habit, I admit, but customizations and functions make Pocket Casts an app that is clear, easy to use, fast, and comfortable to manage shows and episodes. Once again, the victory is overwhelming. But this is another story.

It would have been my pleasure to centralize under Apple’s hat the podcast management too, to homologate and simplify my ecosystem, but Apple in some apps has a lot of work to do, web-based or not.