You are correct that the term “podcast” derives from the iPod, but interestingly the term predates Apple’s addition of podcasting features to the iPod and the iTunes software.
Client side scripts for automatically downloading episodes published through RSS, and then copying it to your iTunes library, where it would update your iPod the next time you connected it to your computer. This was long before mobile internet so iPods could only be updated by plugging into a computer with iTunes installed.
You would sync them to your iPod like any other audio. You download the podcast, put it in your iTunes library and when you plugged in your iPod it would transfer everything over.
Remembering back before iCloud sync and plugging in your iPhone to iTunes and thinking it synced but then realising the playback position never synced and you had to manually find your way in every single podcast again
You are correct that the term “podcast” derives from the iPod, but interestingly the term predates Apple’s addition of podcasting features to the iPod and the iTunes software.
Weird! How were they consumed before they were added to iTunes or the iPod? I should know this but I don’t recall.
Client side scripts for automatically downloading episodes published through RSS, and then copying it to your iTunes library, where it would update your iPod the next time you connected it to your computer. This was long before mobile internet so iPods could only be updated by plugging into a computer with iTunes installed.
You would sync them to your iPod like any other audio. You download the podcast, put it in your iTunes library and when you plugged in your iPod it would transfer everything over.
Remembering back before iCloud sync and plugging in your iPhone to iTunes and thinking it synced but then realising the playback position never synced and you had to manually find your way in every single podcast again