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Perfect opportunity to build your own podcast app. Out of interest, what did you dislike about the built in one and the alternatives?

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1. It took too long to start. 2. Navigating between specific pages of the app was slow. 3. It would sometimes get into a bad state if a podcast failed during streaming, requiring a restart of the app. 4. More generally, the audio stack seemed a little bit flakey. Very occasionally switching between music and podcasts would crash the phone.

Well, number 4 sounds like more of an OS problem really =/ I guess there's no app that could have fixed that for you.

Is it better on the iphone? I tried to switch a while back but didn't do my homework, bought an iphone 4 and though it was a nice little handset it was limited to iOS 7 I think, and most apps wouldn't install. that was my one and only foray into iphones

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