plus, this here is not only about Personal Options Devices, assuming that is some weirder way of saying Portable Media Player.
people watch vlogs on computers and TVs as well.
pod that.
;-)
On 11/23/05, Bill Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah I tend to agree with this. The POD in iPod stands for personal
options device. Apple added the i (as they have been for about 8
years now) which they have always said stands for Internet. So you
have Internet Personal Options Device, or iPod. Pod is really a
generic term.
Bill Streeter
LO-FI SAINT LOUIS
www.lofistl.com
--- In [email protected], Frank Carver < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Wednesday, November 23, 2005, 3:00:58 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > podcast is utterly the worst word that could have ever come out
of
> > audioblogging and now videoblogging. i absolutely despise it.
why?
> > because any term that references a specific product from a
specific company
> > that is in no way exclsuive to what it is.... is wrong and
confusing.
>
> Maybe I'm being naive here. Or maybe it's a British vs American
> cultural thing, but to me the name "podcast" has already
transcended
> the name iPod. And I never felt particularly that podcast implied
> iPod.
>
> The way I have always looked at it was that Apple decided to co-opt
> the existing, but bland, word "pod", and use it to coin a new,
simple
> term for the more clumsy but popular "MP3 Player". They
particularly
> needed to do this, otherwise the ability of their player to play
MP3
> files would be seen as it's major purpose, rather than Apple's aim
of
> playing their own DRM format.
>
> So the community wins. We now have a new, simple, pronounceable
word
> "pod" that describes a portable media player without reference to
any
> format, medium or manufacturer. Hurrah!
>
> Best of all, the community is free to invent new words to describe
> things such as the process of subscribing and distributing media
for
> such a player: "podcasting".
>
> Now, Apple (for whatever reason) like the prefix "i". So _their_
media
> player is called iPod. In the same way that their notebook
computer is
> called iBook.
>
> I don't know what it's like where anyone else lives, but around
here
> the overwhelmingly popular name for a media player is still "MP3
> player". That's what seven-year-olds ask for for their birthdays.
> Apple's iPod range are just seen as (expensive and pretentious)
> examples among many.
>
> Bottom line, I'm happy to use "podcasting" and "podcast", and to
> distinguish as appropriate where medium or format is an issue :-
MP3
> podcasting, Quicktime video podcast, PDF podcast, or whatever. In
most
> cases though, it's much simpler and just as understandable to just
say
> "podcast".
>
> >> To simply add 'video' to podcast becomes a very simple
> >> way to extend what people already know.
>
> > wrong.. most people know podcasts as being internet radio...
audio! so, in
> > essence, your saying adding video makes sense to prelude an
audio term.
> > video radio anyone?
>
> Umm. Wasn't the word "video" itself merely some sort of
contraction of
> vision and radio ?
>
> --
> Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
>
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