That's just being pedantic. I installed Spotify only for podcasts. It's also the only app that seems to work with weak networks. Rest are terrible.
Run me through how you'd listen to their paid podcast "Goodbye Internet"[0] in Spotify and I'll concede that Spotify is a podcast client.
[0] https://www.patreon.com/hellointernet
and then it's also not a podcast provider. Run me through how I'd listen to Gimlet's Academy[1] audio series in Overcast, and I'll concede that point too
[1] https://open.spotify.com/show/7hhEbl4DOMheWRunCUAla6?si=WFxE...
And if everyone cares as little as you do, Spotify will win.
My hope is that most people on HN won't confuse "caring about open standards" with "pedantry".
> It's also the only app that seems to work with weak networks.
This is non-sensical. Episodes are delivered via ordinary HTTP. And with podcast apps (again, Spotify is not one), the odds are good that episodes from your subscriptions have been pre-fetched to local storage before you even play them.