Since I couldn’t read while driving, audio was my only solution and Podcasts seemed like a “good enough” thing to try. Those 90 minutes felt like lost time and I had to gain them back somehow. What pushed me to give podcasts a try was an average daily commute time of 90 minutes and the local radio stations playing more ads and rubbish competitions than music. I was, however, not yet sold on the benefit of listening vs reading. Our own Steve Litchfield had been clamoring podcasts for years, I even appeared as a guest on some of his Phones Show Chat episodes, and I knew many blogs had a weekly show. A year ago, almost to the day, I decided to start listening to podcasts. Here, I’ll explain to you why I use it at least 2 to 3 hours everyday. For me, it’s Pocket Casts, a podcast client. The Android and iOS apps are available now under Mozilla Public License 2.0, a copyleft license that stipulates all derivative projects or modifications have to be released under the same license.What’s the most used application on your phone? For some, it’s WhatsApp or an alternative messaging application, for others, it’s Twitter or Facebook, it might also be the browser or music player, Gmail or YouTube, or whatever game you’re addicted to.

It’s perhaps not the biggest of surprises that Automattic has elected to push the Pocket Casts app code onto GitHub, given that Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg is a huge proponent of open source - and WordPress is among the top open source projects on the planet.īy making Pocket Casts open source, this means that anyone can access the code, fix bugs, create new features, and even fork it to build their own competing service on top of the Pocket Cast codebase. Pocket Casts is one of the most popular “podcatcher” apps outside the big tech ecosystems of Google, Apple, and Spotify, allowing users to search and subscribe to podcasts for free, with premium features such as desktop apps available for a fee.

WordPress parent company Automattic acquired Pocket Casts last July, having been acquired by a group of public radio companies, including NPR, back in 2018. Popular podcast platform Pocket Casts has released its mobile clients under an open source license.

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