>Yet three of the podcasts I mentioned have survived for well over a decade. That's because podcasts are still part of an open ecosystem. I think the current s

>Yet three of the podcasts I mentioned have survived for well over a decade. That's because podcasts are still part of an open ecosystem. I think the current system works very well and I don't want it to change, but I can see a walled-garden arise and lock the majority of content away behind proprietary podcast clients (much as video content is locked inside the YouTube garden).