If it happens to work for you as well, all the better. Rather, he created Overcast to satisfy his own podcast listening needs. Overcast may be the most hyped podcast client ever, but Arment isn’t seeking to revolutionize podcasting.
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It’s now available for free for iPhone in the App Store, with an optional $4.99 in-app purchase. After selling off Instapaper to Betaworks (see “ Betaworks Takes over Instapaper,” 25 April 2013) and The Magazine to our own Glenn Fleishman (see “ Glenn Fleishman Buys The Magazine from Marco Arment,” ), Arment had freed up the time to develop it, announcing Overcast in September 2013 at the XOXO Festival. ) But what we didn’t know was that Arment was already working on one, and had been since October 2012. See “ Five Alternatives to Apple’s Podcasts App,” 22 December 2012, and “ Instacast for Mac Fills the Desktop Podcatcher Gap,”. (I’ll cop to being obsessive about podcast clients. It was only natural that fans of his podcasts - yours truly included - bugged Arment to build a podcast app of his own. Marco Arment may have helped develop the microblogging service Tumblr (currently owned by Yahoo) and gone on to create the read-it-later service Instapaper and the biweekly electronic publication The Magazine, but in the last few years he has become most famous for his podcasts: first the now-retired Build and Analyze with co-host Dan Benjamin and now Accidental Tech Podcast with co-hosts John Siracusa and Casey Liss.
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