Photo illustration by Slate. Image by Apple.
I’m not a knee-jerk tech-tweak hater. You know the type: Ugggh, Twitter replaced the favorite button with the like! Twitter is ruined! It was the like button, guys, not the neo-Nazis.
But I am able to recognize when an app or interface declines for reasons that go beyond a change I’m just not used to yet.
Up until two months ago, the Apple Podcasts app was the only podcasting app I used. I tried Stitcher and even dabbled with listening on SoundCloud (why?). But the Podcasts app—and before it iTunes, the default place where iPhone users used to find their podcasts—had everything I needed. It gave me a nice, workable list of the shows I liked; let me know when those shows were updated; played the shows easily and without glitches; and offered the option of…
