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by jakobegger 3192 days ago
Wasn't the whole article about how standalone podcast apps on the watch aren't possible? What 3rd party apps allow playing podcasts on the Watch without iPhone?
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jonknee 3192 days ago
There may be some half assed solutions, the article was why a good standalone podcast app isn't currently possible.
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canuckintime 3191 days ago
did you know about Watchcast[1]? It's been offering offline Watch podcast playback long before Marco failed at the feature and requested new APIs...

[1] https://brianmcburney.github.io/

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anonred 3191 days ago
Watchcast has the same issues Marco brought up. Developers should not condone Apple's overly-aggressive platform limitations by sacrificing good UX just to release a feature.
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