Facebook has put the copy machine back in motion and has just unveiled its latest product: podcasts, an audio format that Apple popularized a few years ago, and that little by little other companies like Google are adopting a little less than a year ago. year and now Facebook. The problem of Facebook for a while now is, is that you are trying to cover a lot of topics without just focusing on one in particular to popularize it among users. But Mark Zuckerberg will know what to do.
Facebook wants anyone with a Facebook account to be able to create a specific channel where they can post their programs, comments, discussions ... to be able to offer it to the community interested in this type of audio format, a format that is gradually becoming more popular among smartphone users. The operation of Live Audio, allows us to listen to the content while we are reviewing our wall through the application for iOS, but once we abandon it we will stop listening to it. However, with the Android application if we are going to be able to put our device to sleep if we want to continue listening to it.
I do not quite understand the idea that Facebook has of a podcast, but most users tend to listen to them while they are doing other things, not when they are reading information, since either you focus on listening or you focus on reading, leaving aside the content that is playing. We can also download these files without needing an internet connection to listen to them. Presumably in time Facebook launches a separate app to bypass iOS restrictions in this sense and that allow you to play the content in the background.
If the Facebook application is one of the worst developed and represents one of the highest battery consumption of smartphones, I don't even want to think what the introduction of podcasts can mean.