iTunes Goes Podcasting

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[Protein° Feed] "With the next version of iTunes, due within 60 days, there will now be an easy way for everyone to find and subscribe to podcasts", Apple said in a statement. Apple chief Steve Jobs was demonstrating the functionality at a technology conference in the US.

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[leyton.org] Coldplay: X&Y: I ummed and ahhed a bit about ordering an album I expected to like from iTunes, normally preferring to buy “big” albums like this in pressed-dead-dinosaur-juice format, so I can admire it in my non-existant CD cabinet. I thought about how I listened to albums these days, and it’s almost exclusively when I’m sat at a computer, or via my iPod. Essentially, there is absolutely no place for rotating pieces of plastic in my listening habits. When we finally have somewhere to live, I’ll probably make use of airport express and MP3 players.

[techIt] Apple's WWDC 2005: Apple released a video of Steve Job's keynote at their World Wide Developer's Conference 2005 in San Francisco on their website. Steve Jobs (Apple's CEO) announced quite a handful at this year's conference, but the big news is that they are (eventually) going to switch to Intel's x86 based processors. Unfortunately, this doesn't look like OS 10 will run on your current x86 machines. However, like I said before, this will probably bring the price down on Macs.

[the Daily Irrelevant] Study: iTunes more popular than many P2P sites: The survey by market research firm NPD Group found that approximately 1.7 million U.S. households downloaded a song from iTunes in March. That was good enough to earn the store a second-place ranking with peer-to-peer downloading service LimeWire.

[ambivalent imbroglio] It's True: Say Hello to *cough* Mactel: Apple talked a lot about how long it would take Mac developers to port their software to run on Intel chips (not long for some, forever for others), but I haven't heard anything about how long it will take Windows developers to port their software to OS X on Intel. Will this move make it such a transition easier, and if so, will Mac users soon see an explosion of new software options? I mean, it doesn't matter that much if you could just boot your Mac into Windows for the $100 or whatever it costs to buy a copy of that OS, but still, I'd rather work in OS X so it would be nice if rebooting wasn't necessary.

[ :: Software Journal :: Software News and Reviews] Apple iTunes as popular as P2P applications: This news is going to come as a big surprise for the MPAA and RIAA. Research has concluded that Apple’s digital music download store iTunes is as popular if not more than most of the P2P applications out there. This means that legitimate ways of downloading songs is somehow managed to reach the levels of download digital content illegally.

[Stock Quotes Help Network - Stock Trading - News about Stocks - Stock Quotes Help Network provides news and information about s] Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006: At its Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple® announced plans to deliver models of its Macintosh® computers using Intel® microprocessors by this time next year, and to transition all of its Macs to using Intel microprocessors by the end of 2007. Apple previewed a version of its critically acclaimed operating system, Mac OS® X Tiger, running on an Intel- based Mac® to the over 3,800 developers attending CEO Steve Jobs' keynote address. Apple also announced the availability of a Developer Transition Kit, consisting of an Intel-based Mac development system along with preview versions of Apple's software, which will allow developers to prepare versions of their applications which will run on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.

[Erdei :: Main Page] Apple Snares Five Spots in PC World's 100 Best Products of 2005: Writing about Tiger, the PC World editors acknowledged: "Mac fans are already enjoying the cool features that Windows won't deliver until late 2006." But it wasn't all rah-rah for Apple, however. While they liked the iTunes Music Store enough to place it on the list, PC World's editors said: "We'd like to see a higher bit rate for downloads, as well as a subscription service."

[Radar.oreilly.com] O'Reilly Radar > Podcast support in next version of iTunes: At the Wall Street Journal's D Conference, Steve Jobs tonight showed ipodder-like features in the next release of iTunes, supposedly available within about 60 days. I was glad to see this, since the "architecture of participation" has been the only one of the big Web 2.0 themes that Apple had seemed to be missing. He was slightly dismissive of populist podcasting, describing it as "Wayne's World for radio", and celebrating the arrival of professional radio stations into the market, but nonetheless, he was very high on the podcasting phenomenon, and the excitement that millions of users have displayed about it. In the Q&A, Jason Calcanis of Weblogs, Inc.

[Netscape.com.com] Apple | News.blog | CNET News.com: Calling podcasting "the Wayne's World of radio," Apple chief Steve Jobs aims to bring the online audio format into the mainstream. He demoed version 4.9 of iTunes at the Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif. , on Sunday, and said that iTunes will provide integrated support for podcasting. Podcasters can submit their programs to Apple, which plans to make them available for free downloads; iTunes 4.9 is expected to be released this summer.

[Theappleblog.com] The Apple Blog: One might well wonder why Apple couldn’t make this functionality a little more accessible, say by allowing all caps ORs and NOTs in Spotlight queries instead of these rather obscure bracketed syntaxes. There is some suggestion that it is due to boolean searching’s not yet being fully implemented, hence the decision to keep the functionality “hidden”. For those of us that want it in the meantime, this will have to do.

[Robbushway.blogspot.com] Rob Bushway - Tablet PC MVP: Apple Tablet PC sightings: The technology is available to provide consumers with a product like "iSlate". Of course only Apple could really do it right, although several other companies are attempting to create some variation of this device. Unfortunately many are too focused on video playback only, & not creating a true multi-function device that could be used at home, at the office, or on the road. This product would integrate well into the "Digital Lifestyle" philosophy & compliment existing Apple products.

[Apple.quicksurf.com] Apple Log: News, Links, Podcasting: At the Wall Street Journal’s D Conference, Steve Jobs tonight showed ipodder-like features in the next release of iTunes, supposedly available within about 60 days. I was glad to see this, since the “architecture of participation” has been the only one of the big Web 2.0 themes that Apple had seemed to be missing. He was slightly dismissive of populist podcasting, describing it as “Wayne’s World for radio”, and celebrating the arrival of professional radio stations into the market, but nonetheless, he was very high on the podcasting phenomenon, and the excitement that millions of users have displayed about it. In the Q&A, Jason Calcanis of Weblogs, Inc.

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