I'd kind of like them to make their podcasts totally open (i.e., like every other non-exclusive podcast), with a proviso that their original podcasts cannot be made available through any app that shares exclusive for-pay content. That is, you can listen to an Apple Original Podcast(tm) on not only Apple Podcasts, but Overcast, Castro, Pocketcasts, etc., but not through Spotify or Luminary.
And, yes, I recognize that'd be kind of a jerk move, but I'm okay with being a jerk in this context.
That’s interesting. If there was a way to block Luminary — I’d be in favor of that.
Spotify has its own repository that is separate from Apple Podcasts — you have to manually submit to them and they don’t just ingest Apple’s directory (as others do), but I wouldn’t be opposed to not submitting an Apple podcast to Spotify.
That said, I’m not in favor of doing anything to the RSS feed that makes it nonstandard. So if Luminary can add/play files from an RSS feed (not talking about how they import stuff into their own directory) or Spotify had that feature, I’d be opposed to breaking the feed, if that makes sense.
Breaking RSS would be a bad idea, definitely. I think if they did anything like this, it would be a matter of licensing rather than a technical change. I've read reports that the New York Times and (possible irony alert) Spotify-owned Anchor and Gimlet Media have blocked Luminary from their podcasts, for instance.
And, yes, I recognize that'd be kind of a jerk move, but I'm okay with being a jerk in this context.