> Atom wasn’t being used in podcasting because it wasn’t supported by key podcasting platforms! But Apple did for many years, no? If Atom was obviously and una

> Atom wasn’t being used in podcasting because it wasn’t supported by key podcasting platforms! But Apple did for many years, no? If Atom was obviously and unambiguously better for the use case, Atom would've been successful for that use case. > I cannot understand how anyone could have anything but scorn for the mess that is podcasting RSS. I built a reasonably popular podcast feed validator and don't understand which part is a mess. If you wouldn't mind sharing, I know the Podcast Standards Project folks are considering what their next project should be. > …the paragraphs there are rather baffling to me in their untempered praise for Apple and condemnation of (unspecified) others. Spotify's embrace/extend/extinguish approach successfully killed the original "open medium" meaning of the word "podcasting". Whatever your other critiques of Apple, they worked within the RSS standard.