[oefrha]

> If Apple and Google couldn't do it

Apple sat on a de facto monopoly on the podcast player market for a vey long time and simply left it alone. They absolutely could have ruined it. They just didn’t.

I’m not sure about the Android ecosystem (it was pretty much irrelevant for the podcast market until relatively recently anyway), but did Google even try?

[squiggleblaz]

Google barely even touches podcasts. I'm not sure if there's a "default podcast app" on Android.

[arkitaip]

There is an app called Google Podcasts (com.google.android.apps.podcasts) but I don't think it's an Android default.