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Everybody always says "Well where do you listen to your podcast?" and everyone has
the Apple podcast app downloaded on their phone if they're using iOS but
nobody really thinks about it and it's not very pleasant to use. I use it
because it's free and it's already there but I'm ready to go to something else.
Because it's not great. It's funny the look of it is fine, like it doesn't look
horrible necessarily, but it's so confusing to use and it's so... the
structure of it is just kind of a mess and especially when you were telling us
about pocket casts it is so much easier to use. Like just being able to see all
the shows that you've been listening to is amazing because right here it says
listen now but what does that mean? Did I download these? Are the --
right, are these things that I've listened to in the past? Yeah, So I will
say I love purple and I think they're using purple here is super hot. oh yeah I
do like to color a lot
I like that. I think the color is great but it also like it
doesn't leave room for the podcasts to be part like how PocketCasts is kind
of merged into their own brand. Yeah, you're right this looks so like if I'm
scrolling down in here I have no idea which podcasts I'm listening to yeah so
there's no reminders of where you are in the app yeah the library is confusing it
gives you your recently updated but you can't see all the podcasts I listen to
so then you go into shows or episodes but you can't see both kind of and
there's if you can't visually see your cue you and you can cue things up but
you can't actually go look at it which is kind of a pain yeah I do like they do
have the sleep timer which I really appreciate and then there's a difference
between saving the episode and downloading the episode but I'm not
quite sure what the difference is so it's just kind of a it's kind of
confused it's very confusing I'm not really a big fan of it.
I got excited when Google Podcasts came out recently. So actually for a lot
of them what you've said there's a lot of what you said his reason actually
don't like a full podcast I'm a Google fanboy I like a lot of what they do I'm
not afraid of obviously save a spot but I was excited for a new podcast app
because again I've been using pocket cast for almost a decade now so when I
download this I got really is a funny really quickly they definitely focus on
trying to like surface discovery stuff for you so they're like constantly saying
"Here's a podcast you like, here's a podcast everyone else likes. Everyone listens to
"Stuff you should know" top of list on yours is top a list on mine. Or like the
Joe Rogan Experience. I don't listen to that podcast. But they're still showing it to me every
time I open this app. So to get to my stuff I have this little box
that just says "for you" and it's tab and they only show me three at a time and I
have to go to all episodes and all new episodes or all downloads and so like
they split this stuff out in weird way is to where if I wanted to just
listen to an episode.. they have them up top which is nice but they're pushing for the new
ones and they expect you to stream it. I don't like streaming podcasts. I'm fine
streaming music, for some reason when I tried to stream podcast sometimes
doesn't work deep or like I'm into a story and it just like buffers and so I
just download all of mine so that they're there when when I'm ready for them. For
some reason I downloaded an entire series of Revolutions... It took me like ten minutes
to go through an entire season of just "Click..."
Whereas before, on my other app, I could just go "Tap, tap tap"
...and they show up in the right order. And so I think that's definitely
something that really annoys me. There's no way to like to stop listening.
And this might just be something that's..
Shut your ears!
I have this thunderstorm thing that I asked it to play a while ago when I was traveling
to play storm sounds and it's just still there and it's just a minor thing but
it's like I don't need to listen to thunderstorms anymore.
It seems like it's very quick to find the podcast, but for how I use podcast it's definitely like...
I need to go find this one thing and listen to it, because I know I've been listening to it for like a month.
I think something that both of these do wrong is
mixing up the order of how things should be.
I really want -- like, I listen to
podcasts in order or I want to know the chronological order and it constantly just rearranges.
So the app that I chose that I dislike is the partner phone app
to this camera. So, Fujifilm makes beautiful cameras. I think they're well
known for their class and like old timey body style but their app -- mine is mostly
just about trust not even just like user experience.
There's a some slowness there but it's trust like I went to the App Store and
just searched I don't know Fujifilm and I found this app and it is so sketchy
Yeah
And it does say Fujifilm but it's called the app itself is called "Cam
Remote" so you can like control your camera. I haven't really done that but
that's a cool feature it just looks like you spend a lot of money on
these beautiful cameras and they produce beautiful cameras but they can't spend
money on to like make a good app experience. Yeah. And so this is what
you've presented with and this is sort of like I was talking about menus how
good they are on Airbnb this is like the primary menu you're dropped into and all
this text just competes so hard for your attention. So connects, so I'm going to
try to -- I literally don't remember the process here so it's in this menu you
have to know where the menu is.
It's in a sub-menu. Wow.
So you have to leave the app. I have
to leave the app go to my settings and then choose this Wi-Fi so that's already
bizarre like you're meant to drop out of the app and then choose.. Yeah I literally --
just you do have to use the steps to remember like, "How do I do this?" Because
it's such a weird... and then I think I hit
okay here it's just so weird. But so -- and the thing is you can only send one picture
at a time to your phone it takes forever like what if I want to batch.
That's really nice. Mine is just it shows like a preview so that's cool.
but one image at a time like I want to batch so whatever I end that.. So here's
here's that wow that's pretty cool Whoa! It's alive, oh that's freakin' tight.
It's a live view.
Oh, that's freakin' cool!
Okay, this is actually pretty sweet.
But... but the thing is, you have to get over the
barrier of like, "Is this app gonna give me like a virus, or like what what even
is this?" And why is Fuji film so cheap?
It looks very cheap. And then they're still using
like these kind of sort of skeuomorphic buttons which don't even look like the
buttons on the actual camera by the way. That was the shutter button but that
looks like a record button. Yeah, nothing I can change
here's that is weird and look you can't even see... it
shuts down the eye finder and the viewfinder. And so really it's not
the worst experience ever but it's just like... looks bad and I think it's... my
complaint is all about trust it's like.. you know, you spend good money on a good
camera they should spend good money on a good experience for the user.
Yeah. Absolutely
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