"The iTunes Store offers more than 100,000 audio and video podcasts from independent creators and big names like HBO, NPR, ESPN, The Onion, CBS Sports, and The New York Times."
Stardust's snide remarks proved wrong. I am very patient.
I wonder what this post is actually about, apart from a poor attempt to say "I feel smarter than you are".
stardust is having a laugh, for sure... (that means, the post isn't totally useless, because it spreads fun all over this planet ).
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The title isn't accurate, and did trick me into reading it. However it appears to be a VERY slow weekend in OT, so most of us must have been otherwise occupied. Perhaps our dear braincell couldn't bear it and had to stir the pot a bit, even if it was a pot of his own (attempt at) making?
It is proprietary because Apple must listen to each podcast before it is approved or not approved. The rumor was that Steve Jobs did this himself. In contrast while Microsoft does the same thing with their Zune software, they have an option to add any podcast. It would have been so easy for Apple to allow such freedom but no, freedom isn't a word in the Apple vocabulary.
While it is true that a podcast is simply media such as audio or video, the RSS feed and associated software makes a huge difference. I don't have to go to 20 websites to download my podcasts, they come to me and I never miss one.
The name choice is unfortunate since many people still think you need an ipod to listen to them. Many people are still unaware of the vast content and how easy they are to subscribe to. The iTunes software is pretty good in that regard if you discount their monomaniacal refusal to let users add urls. My main complaint other than that is that they don't offer any way to save your list on their server.
Podcasts will be around far longer than Apple computer will be. The name "Podcast" may change.
Apple will be bought by a Chinese company when it is on the brink of bankruptcy.
will you be here, actually, after your scope cards died? (I assume they will, somehow, within the next 30 years, and so will many others, even including mine)
I remember you saying not to give a single dime for another S|C product, but maybe this has become obsolete already... who knows?
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braincell wrote:...Apple will be bought by a Chinese company when it is on the brink of bankruptcy.
what a rubbish
if the Chinese need just 5 years to clone a complete German train system, they'd simply clone the whole Apple corporation in less than 30 years...
They wouldn't care about the technology or the employees. Apple is already made in China. They would just want the name, assuming it would still have any value then. Currently Apple is doing quite well but every area it's in is vulnerable.
IBM has been around for more than 100 years. Microsoft will survive but be much smaller than it is.
