An update on Explicit Ratings

Posted by Padraig on Jan 30, 2015

After writing my post about how podcast apps handle explicit ratings, I spent some time making sure that the feature I wanted hadn’t arrived quietly in iOS 8. I admit that this is not the ideal order in which to do one’s research.

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Does it matter that Castro doesn’t show explicit ratings?

Posted by Padraig on Jan 29, 2015

Castro was mentioned today on Libsyn’s “The Feed” podcast. A listener who hosted their own podcast had emailed a question: they were wondering whether they should be concerned that Castro doesn’t show an “explicit” rating on their episodes. Podcast feeds can indicate whether or not each episode is explicit. This allows apps to alert users about the nature of the episode. The host answered that ‘this is a problem with Castro…’. He’s right in a way, but I would like to explain why we made the decision not to show these ratings in our app.

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App Developer Friends: Try TestFlight.

Posted by Padraig on Jan 21, 2015

In March last year, after a particularly frustrating few hours dealing with iOS beta device slots, I filed this bug report with Apple. I didn’t realize it at the time, but a solution to this problem was already in motion. In February, Apple had acquired a company called TestFlight. Over the next few months it integrated many of the original TestFlight features into iTunes Connect.

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Happy Birthday Castro 1, Hello Castro 2

Posted by Padraig on Dec 10, 2014

It has been exactly 1 year since Oisin and I launched our podcast app, Castro.

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