This is a good reminder of why #opensource software is so awesome.
Even if the author of an open source app/service discontinues it, anyone
can just fork the project and keep updating it.
When
it comes to closed source stuff like Google Podcasts here, you're at
the whim of the company shutting down a product at any point, and
there's nothing you can do about it.
Here's a great tool to find alternatives to Google products, make sure to set the "open source" filter!
My first realisation of this consequence of closed source software came when Google discontinued its RSS reader...
Which RSS reader and/or aggregator did you end up switching to?
I went for Feedly initially, but I didn't like it at all, later I tried to integrate some RSS feeds from blogs I used to read into Thunderbird. It worked, but it wasn't the same feeling. At some point I realized that I could get a long way with private lists on Twitter, but when I think of it, I haven't still really found a worthy replacement that is able to pull together information from so many diverse sources...
I've been very impressed with Inoreader:
