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iTunes 4.9 To Support Podcasting

Posted by Hemos on from the well-of-course-it-will dept.

WaRrK writes "O'Reilly Radar are reporting that in a demo at D: All Things Digital Conference, Steve Jobs showed off iTunes 4.9, which has support for iPodder like functionality. Although, he was "slightly" dismissive of the phenomena, describing it as "Wayne's World for radio". Also, whilst currently only supporting free content, they are not ruling out paid for podcasting in the future. iTunes 4.9 should be available within 60 days." Yeah, Steve's kinda right on this - podcasting is neat & all, but the breathy overstatement of how it will change our lives is a wee bit overdone.

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  1. HOWTO: Neutral point of view by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV_tutori al

  2. Re:Reality Check by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah that really sets Apple apart from other companies like Sun, IBM and HP... NOT. All the Unix providers have exactly the same control.

    You got it backwards. There are many closed architectures with one company dictating hardware and software. It is in fact the x86 that is unique in that multiple companies provide each part of the computer in an open architecture. And though this solution has it's problems, I think it has shown itself to be vastly superior to a closed system like the Mac.

    Also keep in mind that if Apple where the dominating computer provider, they could probably had squished open source efforts like Linux in the cradle by closing specs and making new hardware incompatbile. The X86 may not be pretty, but I'd prefer it over a closed architecture any day.


  3. Obligatory Ogg Vorbis moan... by irchs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ogg Vorbis support might be nice, since it's one of the better streaming formats available...

    Listening tests:

    HydrogenAudio - The Autov tweaks made it into the official releases. (1.1)

    (I can't find anymore at the moment, feel free to add your codec tests. The tests done via HydrogenAudio are generally considered to be solid.

    Thanks

    Jan

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    Jan