Comments on: I Went to Macworld and All I *Didn’t* Get Was A Lousy WiFi iPod http://kriegster.com/2007/01/25/i-went-to-macworld-and-all-i-didnt-get-was-a-lousy-wifi-ipod/ I think about IT, therefore I am Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:28:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The iPod Touch Could Do a Better Job with Podcasts : Matthew Krieger - I think about IT, therefore I am http://kriegster.com/2007/01/25/i-went-to-macworld-and-all-i-didnt-get-was-a-lousy-wifi-ipod/comment-page-1/#comment-82716 The iPod Touch Could Do a Better Job with Podcasts : Matthew Krieger - I think about IT, therefore I am Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:50:40 +0000 http://kriegster.com/2007/01/25/i-went-to-macworld-and-all-i-didnt-get-was-a-lousy-wifi-ipod/#comment-82716 [...] You can’t download new podcast episodes or subscribe to new podcasts over WiFi. The iTunes WiFi interface doesn’t support podcasts at all. The root of this issue is that the Touch doesn’t contain a full blown iTunes client with separate podcast subscription capabilities and as a result, there’s no direct device-to-Internet podcast retrieval. The Zune doesn’t have a direct-to-Internet podcast capability either; you have to sync content from a PC running the Zune Marketplace software which in turn does the Internet downloads. See my previously written related rant. [...] [...] You can’t download new podcast episodes or subscribe to new podcasts over WiFi. The iTunes WiFi interface doesn’t support podcasts at all. The root of this issue is that the Touch doesn’t contain a full blown iTunes client with separate podcast subscription capabilities and as a result, there’s no direct device-to-Internet podcast retrieval. The Zune doesn’t have a direct-to-Internet podcast capability either; you have to sync content from a PC running the Zune Marketplace software which in turn does the Internet downloads. See my previously written related rant. [...]

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