
When they own every product or service in the stack, they can tune one product (like podcasts) to serve the purposes of another, even when it appears to hurt a product and it's users individually, because it benefits Apple as a whole.

I'm gona keep shouting this from the rooftops and maybe it will eventually sink in for some people:Īpple's end game is vertical integration, it's "lock-in" on steroids.

It’s ludicrous to assume that it’s a good thing for listeners to have to have specific hardware in order to listen to a podcast.

This feels like an absolutely wild choice from a product perspective it’s the mindset of a company who still thinks that they have dominance over the podcasting world. That’s right: if you host your show with Apple, the only listeners you can have are folks with the Apple Podcasts app.
