Comments on: More on iTunes

By: Filesharing Review

Filesharing Review — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:08:11 +0000

More on iTunes

[Source: Evil Genius Chronicles] quoted: Second, if iTunes can’t download a show because a server gets shutdown, who does the end-user think is to blame? If they can’t get a song from the ITMS, they would blame iTunes – if podcasting is bu…

By: dave

dave — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:01:54 +0000

Not that I care that much, but assuming y’all are correct I can see people howling about this for a variety of reasons. Unless Apple is willing to provide download statistics to everyone whose podcast they are caching, they are effectively taking money from people whose compensation is tied to audience size. It puts Apple in the position of having more knowledge and control over the distribution of your show than you do, which I see as wildly problematic unless there is an opt-out.

By: rob

rob — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 02:55:05 +0000

I agree with Andy on this. I’m thinking Apple will have be hosting a copy of everyone’s show.. at least those featured on the main page of the iTunes podcast area. Otherwise there will be a lot of server melting going on.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:53:18 +0000

Enjoy your show immensely!

Hopefully iTunes will add in Bittorrent support. I’m putting my hopes behind them because the podcast aggregators (at least for the Mac) are barely beta versions. The new ipodderX has had me spending waay too much time troubleshooting and deleting duplicates…

By: tiltededge

tiltededge — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:39:03 +0000

Keep away from iTunes.

After hearing Apple gripe about Microsoft and Microsoft’s unfair business practices for years, I was shocked when Apple bought Emagic and promptly decided that Emagic would no longer release products for the Windows platform thus isolating 90,000 Windows/Emagic users. I had bought an Emagic MIDI interface just a month previous to this and there had been no hint of impending doom.

iTunes is currently the leader for music downloads. This will not last and that is a good thing.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:00:10 +0000

I’m not saying this is going to happen, but wanted to throw it out there…

Do you think iTunes will cache a copy of each show that is requested? There are two reason I’m saying this. First, Apple already doesn’t seem to care how much bandwidth people using a .mac account are using. Second, if iTunes can’t download a show because a server gets shutdown, who does the end-user think is to blame? If they can’t get a song from the ITMS, they would blame iTunes – if podcasting is built into ITMS and people can’t get their shows, I have a feeling Apple would be getting a lot of calls about this and Apple wouldn’t want their product to seem inferior.

These are just my thoughts – I have no idea if this is actually the case. But if I was Apple and wanted to make sure people could “always” get podcasts from my product, I’d make sure I was the one serving up the show. Afterall, they already serve all those songs so what’s another few thousand podcasts!