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Wait, podcast is named after iPod?

• Macha 6y ago
  Yes - a rival mp3 player producer pioneered the idea of episodic audio content that was automatically downloaded to the device to listen to on the go. But then they went bankrupt, and other developers implemented it for the iPod, which was the most popular device and that's the medium on which they caught on first, hence the name. Especially helped when Apple added actual support for iTunes. Also why the iTunes directory is the defacto podcast directory used by most independent podcast applications.
• ironmagma 6y ago
  Used to be the idea was you subscribed to a podcast, and that meant your computer would download the files and then when you synced your iPod next, it would have the latest episodes, since iPods didn’t have WiFi back then.