Comments on: iTunes blindness

By: Podcamp Boston: Please, don’t let Leopard take over

Podcamp Boston: Please, don’t let Leopard take over — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:16:59 +0000

[...] say about this, but let’s keep it brief instead: Don’t let this company, the one that took a cash-grab at podcasting, bring the hype into our community [...]

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:18:06 +0000

I was thrilled to see (and ultimately listen to) your latest podcast. It was a nice surprise to see you had done a new show. Try not to lose the momentum. I’m sure you’re busy, and you’d like to be inspired to create a new show, but sometimes forcing yourself to do it a couple times is what’s required to get you back on track and feeling more inspired/motivated on a regular basis.

Keep up the great show. I’m a long-time listener and am looking forward to the next show.

By: CT Moore

CT Moore — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:40:02 +0000

Had to come back and vent one more time. iTunes is acting shady over my content. Sometime it’s there, sometimes it isn’t. Makes you think how Lenin, Mao, and Castro all went form revolutionaries and visionaries to just another set of despots and tyrants.

By: Leesa Barnes

Leesa Barnes — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:37:07 +0000

As I said in one of my posts, if iTunes were a woman, I’d put runs in her stockings.

I hate iTunes, yet iTunes is the language that my clients understand. What’s a girl to do?

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:20:40 +0000

Julien,

Agree with you here. I asked Kent from Ask a Ninja at Pixelodeon in June how he felt about vlogging’s “gatekeepers,” ie iTunes, and his response was “I like those guys a lot.”

Hah.

Justin,

“Podcasting needs an industry standard that everybody sticks to.” Isn’t that RSS 2.0 with enclosures?

By: CT Moore

CT Moore — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:02:25 +0000

F**king eh! But seriously, we could use something BEYOND the podcatcher to push podcasts before they become just another format that the MSM leverages to sell advertising. Then again, the grand-daddy of RSS is probably on that already.

By: Justin Simonsen

Justin Simonsen — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:54:22 +0000

I wouldn’t hate iTunes so much if the itpc feed could be used in other catchers like Juice. Podcasting needs an industry standard that everybody sticks to.

I look forward to Daves new app. I’ve been running Juice for years now.

By: Joseph Thornley

Joseph Thornley — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:26:10 +0000

Julien,
You are so right. Our world is diminished as we all rush to the common solution.

But darn. It’s hard to say no to iTunes when they bring out beautiful things like the iPod Touch and the iPhone. It’s remarkable how people just ask to touch and play with one of those the first time they see them.

So, choice is important to innovation. But great design matched with adequate function dampens the urge to exercise that choice.