{"id":11517,"date":"2015-06-19T11:28:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11517"},"modified":"2016-12-28T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:11:12","slug":"instacast-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/instacast-discontinued\/","title":{"rendered":"Instacast Discontinued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2015\/06\/14\/instacast-shuts-down-vemedio-podcast-app\/\">Benjamin Mayo<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dancounsell\/status\/610052458874818560\">Dan Counsell<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2015\/06\/14\/instacast-shuts-down-vemedio-podcast-app\/\"><p>Popular podcasting app <a href=\"http:\/\/go.benjaminmayo.co.uk\/577056377\">Instacast for iOS<\/a> and Mac is shutting down as the founders can no longer fund it or any of Vemedio&rsquo;s other projects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doradasoftware.com\/blog\/2015\/6\/14\/its-tough-on-the-app-store\">Daniel Broad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.doradasoftware.com\/blog\/2015\/6\/14\/its-tough-on-the-app-store\"><p>Today one of my long time competitors whose product I&rsquo;ve admired and respected has called it quits. [&#8230;] I&rsquo;m very sorry to hear this but the fact is that it&rsquo;s tough to make money on the App Store. Customers (rightly) demand high quality software which takes time to create, test and support and this requires a business to reach a sustainable income.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2938016\/5-podcatcher-apps-to-replace-nearly-dead-instacast.html\">Michael Simon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2938016\/5-podcatcher-apps-to-replace-nearly-dead-instacast.html\"><p>One of the first podcast clients on the iPhone, the pioneering player helped propel the medium from its humble roots into a global phenomenon spanning the gamut of genres and subjects. But with the podcast app&rsquo;s popularity came a catch&#8211;along with a hoard of new users, a slew of competing players popped up too, all vying to chip away at Instacast&rsquo;s sizable audience. Over the course of its lengthy version history, it from paid to free with in-app-purchases and even offered two levels of subscription memberships, but modern clients kept the pressure on until the company announced earlier this week that it had run out of money and was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2935827\/instacast-fans-will-have-to-find-a-new-podcast-app.html\">shutting down for good<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I prefer Overcast, but it&rsquo;s scary that such a popular app would not be profitable.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Mayo (via Dan Counsell): Popular podcasting app Instacast for iOS and Mac is shutting down as the founders can no longer fund it or any of Vemedio&rsquo;s other projects. Daniel Broad: Today one of my long time competitors whose product I&rsquo;ve admired and respected has called it quits. [&#8230;] I&rsquo;m very sorry to hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,101,1226,31,26,112,1451],"class_list":["post-11517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-instacast","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-podcasts","tag-sunset"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11519,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions\/11519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}