Although Apple does not pay much attention to its payment platform, one of the oldest in the market (it was launched in 2005), fortunately, we find that other companies do. Amazon just announced that its smart speakers are already compatible with Apple Podcast, although at the moment only in the United States.
Apple's podcast platform, whose content is around 800.000 episodes, is the most important podcast platformAlthough little by little the streaming music platform Spotify, now also a podcast, is approaching it by leaps and bounds.
Thanks to this integration, we will be able to ask Alexa to play the podcast of Soy de Mac from Apple Podcast. Obviously the first step to be able to do it is link Apple ID so that the automatic synchronization with the Apple Podcast application is possible and allows us to continue playing on other Apple devices.
Like the native Apple application on iOS, we can request Alexa through verbal commands forward two minutes, pause playback, or play the next episode. If we set Apple's podcast platform as the default to play this type of content, there will be no need to add Apple Podcast to requests.
The first podcast came with the launch of the iPod, a category in which Apple focused a lot of efforts and that was available on iTunes back in 2005. It was not until 2012 when Apple launched its own application for iOS. With macos catalina, Mac users can now enjoy our favorite podcasts through the dedicated application
With the arrival of Apple's podcast platform on the Amazon Echo, the world's best-selling smart speakers, Apple seems to want to show that it has not forgotten its platform, although the need for podcasters is not exactly there, but for having some method of monetization.
