I am not an iTunes user because it does not interface with my Palm Tungsten T5 and Pocket Tunes the way Windows Media Player does, however, podcasting moves into the mainstream with latest Apple product.
With the release of Apple’s new version 4.9 of iTunes supporting one click podcasting subscriptions, the veil is removed and anyone can listen to podcasts. No worrying about RSS feeds and what they mean. No cryptic pages to decypher or translate. Scroll, choose, click and voila, it shows up on your iPod.
The down side is that Apple has included only about 3000 of the more than 10,000 podcasts that are available. I doubt they included “Motivation on the Run” in their list, but without iTunes, I have no way of knowing. And if a podcast is not included that you would like to listen to, all the ease that they built in is dissolved and you have to know how to add a feed just like before.
This is a step in the right direction and until subscribing is as easy as going to a webpage, podcasts will lag. It’s not that it’s that difficult, but it takes time to get it all set up and that will keep a lot of people from even trying it.
The times, they are exciting…
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Joe Randall // Aug 10, 2005 at 9:00 pm
Please join iTunes. I really like your site,but want to simple way of subscribing to podcast and listenting on a MP3 player. Thank You
2 Larry Hendrick // Aug 10, 2005 at 9:35 pm
The funny thing is, Joe, as you were dropping off this comment, I was trying to figure out how to get listed on iTunes. It is something I am working on.
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