Comments on: In one stroke, podcasting hits mainstream

iTunes software now offers a gateway to 3,000 podcasts. Can Apple do for podcasts what it did for online music?

[cjohn17]

Apple Corporate Examples

Apple is a wonderful example of a company that has flourishing
"leader led" philosophy ingrained in it's corporate thinking.

Apple succeeds at every level; design, service, and just plain fun
organization to work for. Microsoft can't even sniff this level of
innovation in it's lumbering current form. Especially with stiffs
Ballmer and Gates leading the company. Change or die, boys.
Copying Apple will not insure continued growth.

[cjohn17]

Apple Corporate Examples

Apple is a wonderful example of a company that has flourishing
"leader led" philosophy ingrained in it's corporate thinking.

Apple succeeds at every level; design, service, and just plain fun
organization to work for. Microsoft can't even sniff this level of
innovation in it's lumbering current form. Especially with stiffs
Ballmer and Gates leading the company. Change or die, boys.
Copying Apple will not insure continued growth.

iTunes 4.9 vs Internet Explorer 7

I use iTunes and iPodder right now as podcast aggregators, but has anyone seen Internet Explorer 7 Beta yet? I used the IE7 Beta recently and realized that when the hundreds of millions of Windows users update their Internet Explorer 6 to version 7, it could potentially render iTunes useless as a podcast aggregator (unless you already own an iPod and are used to the iTunes 4.9 interface).

For the vast majority of PC users that don't own iPods (and let's face it--there are 1 billion PCs compared to only about 15-20 million iPods), IE7 walks users through subscribing to downloading and listening to podcasts, vlogs, and any other RSS feed-driven media on any website they visit. It was as painless of a process I've ever seen on a Microsoft platform.

Our podcast offers extensive help pages for iTunes and iPodder users on our website (http://www.imaopodcast.com) but after seeing how easy IE7 was to do the same things the aforementioned programs do, we may not even need to add help pages for IE7.

iTunes 4.9 vs Internet Explorer 7

I use iTunes and iPodder right now as podcast aggregators, but has anyone seen Internet Explorer 7 Beta yet? I used the IE7 Beta recently and realized that when the hundreds of millions of Windows users update their Internet Explorer 6 to version 7, it could potentially render iTunes useless as a podcast aggregator (unless you already own an iPod and are used to the iTunes 4.9 interface).

For the vast majority of PC users that don't own iPods (and let's face it--there are 1 billion PCs compared to only about 15-20 million iPods), IE7 walks users through subscribing to downloading and listening to podcasts, vlogs, and any other RSS feed-driven media on any website they visit. It was as painless of a process I've ever seen on a Microsoft platform.

Our podcast offers extensive help pages for iTunes and iPodder users on our website (http://www.imaopodcast.com) but after seeing how easy IE7 was to do the same things the aforementioned programs do, we may not even need to add help pages for IE7.