This is all well and good, but why does everyone need to have their own damn app?
This is the biggest problem with audio apps these days - you get everyone trying to make a similar thing, and because they're all competing they all try and lock each other out of their own products.
What would be so much better is a content-agnostic platform, that'll let you play whatever the hell you want - whether it's music, talk radio, podcasts, whatever.
Seriously - why does everyone assume that if I want to listen to e.g. NPR, I only want to listen to NPR?
This is the biggest problem with audio apps these days - you get everyone trying to make a similar thing, and because they're all competing they all try and lock each other out of their own products.
What would be so much better is a content-agnostic platform, that'll let you play whatever the hell you want - whether it's music, talk radio, podcasts, whatever.
Seriously - why does everyone assume that if I want to listen to e.g. NPR, I only want to listen to NPR?