It was only a few months ago—Steve stood onstage at D:All Things Digital, and showed off podcasting in iTunes. One of the podcasts he showed, in fact the last one he highlighted, was a “test” that Apple was doing. It was a podcast version of the New Music Tuesdays email newsletters that Apple has been sending out since the Music Store launched.
Steve totally blew it off at the time, but only a few months later iTunes 4.9 with podcasting is here and what?
It’s #1! Guess this wasn’t just the mild-mannered test Steve said it was…
All this would be fine, since the podcast is actually quite good, if only it would be available on Tuesdays! For the last few Tuesdays, the podcast listing does not even update until late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, and even then it gets an error when it tries to download. By the time it’s actually available, it’s Wednesday afternoon. So much for New Music Tuesdays…