Apple Goes After the Term 'Podcast'

Udo Schmitz writes "Earlier this year, Apple went up against companies using the word 'pod' in their product names. Now, Apple is going after the term 'podcasting'. Wired has the complete text of Apple's cease-and-desist letter to Podcast Ready." From the article: "Robert Scoble -- whose own company, PodTech, may be at risk in this witch hunt -- has weighed in on the issue by suggesting that the tech community as a whole adopt other terms like "audiocast" and 'videocast' (or alternately, 'audcast' and 'vidcast') to describe this type of content, while other folks feel that fighting Apple and generating a ton of negative press for Cupertino is the best solution. Our take? Apple should be happy that its golden goose is getting so much free publicity, and if it isn't, we know of several companies that probably wouldn't mind if zencast, zunecast, or sansacast became the preferred terminology."

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[AdmiralWeirdbeard]

to continue with the time magazine analogy,
We call it a magazine whether it was delivered to us in the mail through a subscription, or we picked it up ourselves at a news stand.
Is milk a different thing just because it was delivered by a milkman rather than bought at a grocery?
I really dont think so.
Do we have different names for mp3's that are downloaded via torrent, kazaa, ripped from a CD, or bought from an online store like iTunes?
NO.
Why should an rss fed mp3 be any different?

well, its simple really, because the self-important jackoffs who record them want to be special. Just like the self-important jackoffs who write blogs want to be special by having a blog instead of a weblog, or, *gasp* a website.

Oh, and to the people talking about how younger tech-savvy generations spawn lingo to separate themselves from the fogies? then how come my 78 year-old tech illiterate father knows what a podcast is? certainly not because he knows how it works or could set one up itself. its because its a term which has entered the general parlance, and hence is no longer a badge of separation between young and old.
now, rss feed on the other hand, is still greek to him....
so if you want to keep the fogies out, why not just use the proper fucking term for it and stop being such fucking wankers?