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Originally Posted by Whoopysnorp
Apple has been starting to object to this. Apparently they're threatening to bring some kind of legal action against people using the term 'Podcast' without their permission. Now that it's a noun and a verb and there are a lot of recording kits out their with the word Podcast as part of the retail name, this could get kind of ugly. I wonder if even a company like Apple can stop that kind of momentum.
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Well...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09...re_pod_people/
"Moreover, the term POD has also been adopted and used extensively in the marketplace by consumers as an abbreviation to refer to Apple's IPOD player.""
Really what I think of when I head the word Pod is those things from the movie Cocoon. But alas, I guess those are cocoons. Anyhow, what about the freaking Pod, Line 6's little thingy? I can't believe this (as I type this on my iBook). Anyhow. I have a side project called I Steal and haha we show up third and fifth on a google search:
http://www.google.com/search?hs=sMl&...al&btnG=Search
What a dumb country the USA is.