Stop dumping on app developers
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when you start shitting on apps, like that's, that's what things that's where we've always been within podcasting. App developers always get the short end of the stick, and they always get treated, they get treated poorly,
Episode 167: Deck Darlings (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:57:30 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Dave objects to people trashing podcast apps. Throughout podcasting's history, app developers have always gotten the short end of the stick and been treated poorly, even though everything depends on them.
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Episode 7: Episode 7 01:03:00 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
the developers that are making all this plumbing that didn't make all of this possible. They've been left out of the loop.
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Episode 64: Dave's not here man. Well, at least that was what happened last week. (approx., from transcript intro) 01:11:13 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
anytime that you're dealing with dealing with a developer, it's going to be one usually one of those four things that are taking up whatever amount of his or her time is, is currently being spent. And for you to get in there and just start being a jackass about it. It's not going to make it's not going to get you any sympathy whatsoever.
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Episode 168: Frog Giggin' (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:46:46 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
Well, I'm not going to call out any indie app developer for anything. I can't, I can't run their business, and I can't tell them what to do.
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Episode 192: Lunchroom Quickie (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:46:25 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
writing a podcast app is incredibly difficult. No kidding, when you the first, the first, the star, all these, uh, sort of, writing an RSS feed reader is considered sort of like a bootstrap starter app, and then you and then, and that's so not true, because to do it well, and to do a podcast app Well, takes years and years of commitment.
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