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Comment by mupuff1234 | Hacker News Reader

I don't understand why they can't do a seamless transition.

I should be able to click on the Google podcast icon in April 24' and have it open the new YouTube podcast page without me needing to do anything else.

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They did this a few times over the years (most recently, I believe, with Pay + Wallet apps, where in the US and Singapore, there was a forced transition from Wallet to Pay because of how Google decided to roll the digital wallet features into the payment app. This was only the case in those two countries, though, so in those places trying to open the Wallet app after the transition instead opened the new GPay app. The Wallet apps still exists, but does nothing unless you live somewhere other than the US or Singapore.

Agreed, I’d be interested to see how many times apple or other podcast apps (overcast etc.) have ‘shut down’ code base without us noticing

Many times with iTunes. Right now even movies and tv apps are being shut down for TV+ merge

Looks like there’s one of 2 URLs to visit to take your subscription to YouTube or elsewhere.

> If you want to move from Google Podcasts to YouTube Podcasts, Google makes that pretty easy with a one-click button at music.youtube.com/transfer_podcasts

> you can also export your Google Podcast subscriptions as an OPML file at podcasts.google.com/settings

Does that second option work for anyone? I am unable to find an OPML file there

It's a lot cheaper to outsource a bunch of clicks to users than pay product, design, and software people to make the transition smooth.

Sure, but it would be even cheaper to only develop a podcast app once and then iterate on it. Not to mention that it would avoid repelling users by forcing all these manual migrations on them. Of course, that depends on the possibly flawed assumption that Google cares about acquiring and retaining these users.

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