Velen waren er al bang voor. En het begint er op te lijken dat ze gelijk gaan krijgen. Degene die er het eerste over begon (direct nadat werd aangekondigd dat Apple in podcasten zou gaan) was .. .. JUIST, JE RAAD HET AL: .. .. Dave Winer .. .. . Maar eerst even PodNova gisteren aan het woord:

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.. .. we don’t think it’s a good thing for existing listeners to change your favourite podcatcher for iTunes. We even hope the new people who just got in touch with podcasting via iTunes will swap their iTunes for other podcatchers. Why? There’s a number of reasons:

• o they own their directory, and it’s closed for third parties
• o existing ipodder.org directory maintainers are completely cut out (they did, and do, a lot of great work)
• o no support for bit-torrent
• o which implies that you have to sign up with their hosting services to ‘help you out’
• o AFAIK there is no support for OPML (import or export) or dynamic OPML for web-interoperabillity.
• o iPod only, no other mp3 players are supported
• o The RSS namespace definition of Apple is prefix by a trademark which could be a signal that they want to own the market (see also Dave Winer’s RSS)

Concluding you might say that the main reasons we strongly recommend sticking to your favourite podcatcher are one, the tendency to own the market (for now I’m not even going into their DRM and lock-in strategies which make me shiver, brrr.). And the second one is that their implementation isn’t one that tells us that they understand podcasting. They’d better delivered on scheduled release date and do a proper job.</quote>

[Bron: PodNova]

Vandaag op scripting news:

Robin at Podnova (frEdSCAPEs: refererend naar bovenstaande) has an excellent summary of podcasting by Apple. Let’s hope Microsoft and Real, and everyone else gives us a way to get our old subscription lists in, and our new subscription lists out. To celebrate Apple’s offering, I’m adding import-export of subscription lists to the OPML Editor right now, as we speak. If it’s true that Apple doesn’t give you a way to get your data out, you should use it only for experimental purposes, plan your exodus, think different, starting now. (And to podcasting directory authors, I love you, and I will kick butt to make sure you have a home. I had dinner with Adam on Saturday, we talked about this. And I’m listening to my Archos right now.)

Bron: Scripting News: 6/29/2005 РDave WinerEh .. .. ik denk dat ik iPodder weer even van stal haal. Gelukkig wordt bij deïnstalleren de subscription-data file niet weggegooid

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