Leaked 'Shortwave' Concepts Are 'Early, Exploratory and Outdated', Says Google

Google Podcasts may exist the tech giant's podcast app of pick, just the visitor last calendar month confirmed that it is working on an all-new slice of software for discovering and playing podcasts. Called 'Shortwave', the new app is apparently beingness adult by the Area 120 team, which is described by the tech behemothic as a 'workshop for Google'southward experimental products'.

In a report published Thursday, 9to5Google claimed that it had stumbled upon online documents that apparently explain in great particular 'the general premise behind Shortwave with an app mockup, branding, and other guidelines'. The documents were reportedly posted on the website of a former Google engineer, who the weblog refrained from naming, because the documents were confidential and not meant to go public.

Leaked 'Shortwave' Concepts Are 'Early, Exploratory and Outdated', Says Google — Image Courtesy: 9to5Google

Google has since responded to the report, proverb that the leaked design document contains 'outdated' concepts that in no way represent the current product. Co-ordinate to the company, "The language here is a long-outdated artifact of early exploratory concept work, and not representative of the product at present. In true Area 120 fashion, teams are constantly experimenting and iterating, then unfortunately, the Shortwave squad has long 'waved' goodbye to this approach".

It's not entirely clear how much of these early designs will percolate downwards to the final app, simply for whatsoever information technology'due south worth, the leaked designs show the logo, some potential taglines, and a 'Brand Statement' that claimed the app volition assistance users discover stuff they want to hear, and will let them sample those podcasts in 'tiny portions' as office of a 'long story short' feature, equally seen in the prototype below (left).

A screenshot too seems to show three sections – 'Express joy', 'Learn' and 'Listen' – all of which seemingly have clips 1-x minutes in duration.

It'south non immediately clear how exactly the concluding Shortwave app will differ from Google Podcast, but once it hits primetime, it will be interesting to see if it will fare whatsoever amend than the bottomless three.4 stars that Google Podcasts is currently rated at on the Play Store with over a meg downloads.