To this day I do not own an iPod. My Palm Zire72 makes a better MP3 player AND I can watch movies AND I can play games AND I can record voice memos AND I can surf the web AND I can keep up with my appts AND…
News like this just reminds me why I don’t own an iPod. But I still have a “Podcast”. You don’t need Apple’s device to listen, and I don’t need a Mac to make one.
From Podiobooks.com: On or about Friday, September 22nd, Apple (AAPL) sent a cease and desist notice to a little company called Podcast Ready, who make a nifty little take-anywhere podcatching application called myPodder.
“While Apple, of course, has no general objection to proper use of the descriptive term ‘podcast’ as part of a trademark for goods and services in the podcasting field, it cannot allow marks that go beyond this legitimate use and infringe on Apple’s rights in POD and IPOD.”
Let me reiterate, I love Apple, but I personally don’t see why iPod has to be implied by podcasting.
Leave it to Rob from podCast 411 to clarify this issue. Here is the link to his soapbox commentary.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/podcast411a/~5/27292245/411_060925.mp3