[izacus]

And now they'll "adjust business strategy" and make it a bloated Ad ridden pile of crap most likely. These aquisitions never end well.

[disillusioned]

Are you... not familiar with NPR? It's a non-profit public radio entity. It's some of the least-ad-ridden content available on the planet and a tremendous resource.

[rhacker]

This is what I was thinking - I was trying to stretch my imagination to see how NPR would do this and couldn't.

[roywiggins]

NPR's own One app isn't a bloated ad-ridden pile of crap, why would they take PocketCasts in that direction?

[hrktb]

Agree the fear of ad is unwarranted. Now isn’t NPR’s app pretty heavy on user tracking and is also used to A/B test contents and formats ?

I love NPR’s content, yet I am still worried about my favorite posdcast app getting aquired. I guess there will still be overcast if it goes down badly, but that would be a shame.

[DoofusOfDeath]

I believe you mean "... underwriter ridden pile of crap ..."

[JustSomeNobody]

I hope not. I bought my first copy for Android back at version 3. When I moved to iOS, it was the very first app I bought. I'll buy it again if it keeps ads away.

[analogmemory]

You know it's a $4 app right?