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Saturday, May 02, 2020

Did I mention podcasts are in trouble?

Okay, I obviously didn’t see COVID coming, but I’m going to assume this start-up, which was pretty interesting, was having some trouble earlier. 

A shame. Automatic was, a few years back, a regular sponsor of The Talk Show [a very popular podcast], and their diagnostic dingus, app, and service were all excellent. (Their last episode as a sponsor the November 2016 post-election “Holiday Party” with Merlin Mann.)

Automatic seemed like a good idea, but that it seemed to work okay and that they weren’t bought out tells me there wasn’t a lot of business to be done there. Guess most folks get by, like me, with a cheap ODB2 device with Bluetooth and a free app.