Pocket Casts Plus increases subscription pricing to $33.99 from $10

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/66697

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Holy shit that price is just insane. No one is going to be willing to pay that when Spotify is cheaper by a lot...
- Do people really use Spotify for podcasts? I don't find it a great experience. Pocket Casts seems to be solid as a free app along with other alternatives (including open-source).
  
  I'm pretty sure the only people who use Spotify for podcasts are unvaccinated Roganites
  
  Just here to say fuck Dax Shepherd for being a Spotify exclusive podcaster.
  It’s the only reason my family plan hasn’t been migrated, really. I don’t want to deal with that fall out.
  
  Seriously. I have the Spotify app installed just to listen to his occasional podcast. It’s inspired me to start writing a self hosted app that will archive all your podcasts locally so next time a podcaster decides to sell out I won’t lost their back catalog. And then I also have a place to stream their newer stuff that I figure out a way to pirate.
  The podcast market is in an extremely precarious state due to giant corporations like I heart media and spotify trying to insert themselves into the market, implement Chokepoints with exclusive content, and finally extinguish open alternatives.
  
  Excited to here Dax has a podcast but also sad since I won't be listening to it.
  
  I use Spotify for podcasts, though if the rumors of them increasing their sub is true, I'll be swapping to open source alternative's.
  
  Look at AntennaPod. Pretty app like Pocket Casts but is completely free and open source.
  
  Just discovered yesterday that the Pocket Casts apps are also open source!
  
  Already downloaded, cheers!
- Spotify is 10 a month for a normal subscription, so Pocket Casts is roughly a third of that for one year. I don't like Spotify for podcasts at all but it is a big part of the service nowadays. Still awfully expensive for Pocket Casts when you consider that it is just for podcasts and no music - unlike Spotify.
- You don't need to pay for the subscription to use PocketCasts for podcasts. There is a free version that does everything you would need it to.
  
  I know, I've been using it for years.

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