{"id":6454,"date":"2017-09-25T11:39:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=6454"},"modified":"2017-09-25T11:39:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:39:13","slug":"marco-arment-destroys-our-dreams-of-a-standalone-podcast-app-for-the-apple-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/marco-arment-destroys-our-dreams-of-a-standalone-podcast-app-for-the-apple-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Arment destroys our dreams of a standalone podcast app for the Apple Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6455\" src=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-25-at-11.29.28-am-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;limitations in watchOS 4 make it impossible to deliver standalone podcast playback with the basic functionality and quality that people expect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Marco Arment, creator of the popular Overcast podcast iOS app, extensively details WatchKit&#8217;s limitations and how it can&#8217;t realistically be manipulated to produce the app we all so desperately want.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons vary from file transfer nerfing, lack of streaming audio functionality but are nailed shut for Marco with the Watch&#8217;s inability to play audio in the background. As a result, syncing, a primary function when listening to podcasts across multiple devices, can not be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting, albeit sad read.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2017\/09\/24\/what-watch-podcast-apps-need\">What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch podcast apps \u2013 Marco.org<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8230;limitations in watchOS 4 make it impossible to deliver standalone podcast playback with the basic functionality and quality&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}