They started an exclusive podcast (Apple News podcast) and had some weird workarounds to hide the rss feed url from the iTunes directory API. It's still based o

They started an exclusive podcast (Apple News podcast) and had some weird workarounds to hide the rss feed url from the iTunes directory API. It's still based on RSS and the feed url got leaked, so you can subscribe it in any app which uses the directory (and has added the leaked url to their own database), but people are fearing that they might screw around in the ecosystem