Chris Welch, The Verge:
Apple ruffled some feathers earlier this week when it was discovered third-party apps were being left out of iTunes search results for "podcast" and "podcasts." Today those applications have thankfully returned, though the company still isn't talking about what caused them to be excluded in the first place.
Chris has superb taste in apps, I must say.
From the iTunes page:
We got lots of email and tweets about that last one (missing art). Glad to see it's fixed. Thanks to my main main Jim Dalrymple for the link. I figure I should credit him once in a while.
Nic:
The Jinx: When John says he is planning a short show, sometimes it becomes one of the longest episodes. (At 2 hours and 14 minutes, I’m looking at you, #68: Patent Hands.) Are the short shows longer than the not-short shows? Does he jinx it by declaring it a short show?
TJ Draper's thoughts on Apple's new Podcasts app:
As much as I like some of the interface elements, there are some strange things going on. For instance, in tile mode you can’t access the “Unplayed” area that shows only episodes that have not been played. Sure you can switch to list view, but this seems like a major oversight. What’s more, when in tile view, which is a nice, and beautiful view, you cannot see which podcasts have new and unplayed episodes. Again, an amazing and egregious oversight. This makes tile view beautiful, and completely non-functional.
Apple:
Podcasts app is the easiest way to discover, subscribe to and play your favorite podcasts on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Explore hundreds of thousands of free audio and video podcasts from the Podcasts Catalog, and play the most popular podcasts, organized for you by topic, with the all-new Top Stations feature.
How awesome is this?
My Build & Analyze co-host Marco Arment was interviewed on NPR’s Planet Money podcast. I’m looking forward to listening to this later today.
I guess it would have killed NPR to link to B&A, right?
