<![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"! - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"! - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:06:53 EDT Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:06:53 EDT http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c463452 Broadcast.

Um...

PostmanE

]]> 33:203565:c463452 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:06:53 EDT <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c462891 Dongcast.

alternatekev

]]> 33:203565:c462891 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:58:44 EDT <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c462385 .....How about "deadcast?" There's no quicker way to kill your blog than to switch from easily-skimmable print to a long, rambling, monotonous audio file! Who's got time to listen to all that crap? Besides, my blog-reading time is also my music-listening time. I get ill if I have to pause my tunes!

AcidReign

]]> 33:203565:c462385 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:59:24 EDT <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c461564 First of all, Apple's going to look like dicks either way, win or lose.

Second: the podcasting community has hashed this back and forth and up and down. The word is *podcast.* I don't think we should back down just because a few C&D letters have been sent.

Preciousroy: "podcast" isn't Apple's proprietary trademark... not yet, as I understand. It's in the dictionary, it's in the vernacular. The word existed for months before Apple woke up and added a crappy aggregator to iTunes. *It's too late.*

Thanks,

Matt

mwsmedia

]]> 33:203565:c461564 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:10:21 EDT <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c461501 I thought this has already been decided: netcast

http://www.twit.tv/2006/09/22/a_cast_by_any_other_name

chrisb

]]> 33:203565:c461501 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:03:04 EDT <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c460894 You can lose proprietary trademark if you don't try to enforce it. It becomes genericized . So if Apple wants to hold on to something that someone else actually invented the term for (and really, what's so fucking revolutionary about putting something besides music into an mp3 format?) they have to go after folks. Consult a lawyer for a better explanation of the nuances.

Basically Apple has no choice but to be pricks here. Probably just makes it easier with Jobs at the helm.

Michael Bertin

]]> 33:203565:c460894 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:45:59 EDT <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c460702 I went to Burger King this week and my french fries came in a container called "FryPod." I was extremely disappointed that it did not:

1) Hold 10,000 Fries
2) Play sweet, sweet music.
3) Play downloaded pr0n.

Thank you Steve Jobs for protecting the integrity of the word "Pod" so that consumers like me don't get confused in the marketplace.

BenP

]]> 33:203565:c460702 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:19:42 EDT <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c460538 BlatherBytes

or

RadioButShittier

or

Kyle

ponyboy

]]> 33:203565:c460538 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:45:21 EDT <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c460374 Nerdnectar?

Bob Loblaw

]]> 33:203565:c460374 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:05:57 EDT <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c460353 I'm with spinachdip - Curry deserves to be pelted with cans of ozone-depleting hairspray for failing to trademark "podcast" when he had the chance. Back in '03 or so, with Apple sleeping on the whole concept (before they co-opted it), he probably could've gotten away with it, too.

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:203565:c460353 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:02:49 EDT <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c460329 Steve Jobs' ego is so big I hear he has to move it in a dump truck....

PurduePaul

]]> 33:203565:c460329 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:57:24 EDT <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c460309 Santorums. Wait, never mind. I second rodcast.

AndrewTaylor

]]> 33:203565:c460309 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:54:53 EDT <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c460308 You mean Adam Curry didn't trademark that shit? What an eejut.

spinachdip

]]> 33:203565:c460308 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:54:47 EDT <![CDATA[Apple Wants You To Kneel Before "Pod"!]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/ipod/apple-wants-you-to-kneel-before-pod-203565.php#c460266 Rodcast

Ned Raggett

]]> 33:203565:c460266 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:49:07 EDT