from my understanding, "Podcasting 2.0" is "just" a series of extensions to the feed format that optionally allow additional functionality. your podcast app doe

from my understanding, "Podcasting 2.0" is "just" a series of extensions to the feed format that optionally allow additional functionality. your podcast app doesn't have to do anything with these if it doesn't want to. it's not a Microsoft EEE-type approach, there's no intent (or even means, really) to render "non-Podcasting 2.0-compliant" apps nonfunctional, to prevent new ones from being made, or to otherwise splinter podcasting into different strata. quite the opposite in fact—it's just extensions on top of a format that was designed to be extensible anyway, with the intent of keeping podcasting "open" in a world where the Apples and Spotifys of the world seem to want to lock it down. what's to dislike about this?