80% of podcasts are not transferred to iPod

That's right, it's easier to listen on a computer ...... Recasting the Concept of Podcasting: Part I Page 1 - Talkbacks - Designtechnica
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the largest dictionary in English, "Podcast" is shining in "Word of the Year" in 2005 and the meaning is "digital recording of radio broadcasts or similar things It is said to be "made available on the personal audio player via the Internet".

If you define more detailed podcasts

1. Download (not streaming)
2. Automatically download on a regular basis
3. Listening on a portable player

It turns out that. These three conditions of the podcast are to be established by the appearance of the portable MP3 player represented by iPod and the mechanism for checking the automatic download called RSS, but in reality this seems not to satisfy all the conditions .

Because, rather than taking this step of downloading an MP3 file for podcasts to a PC once and then transferring it to a player such as an iPod, I downloaded it immediately, played it on the spot and heard it from a personal computer It is much earlier. Of course.

As Apple can be expected to promote sales by associating with iPod, it will be repeatedly repeating advertising activities like "Podcast is carried and carried on iPod", but it seems that it is not realistic in reality.

As a result, actually 80% of podcast viewers are playing on the computer as they are without transferring. Furthermore, some of them seem to be fertilizing the HDD without deleting or listening even once without playing ... ....