Just wanna say that there’s no such thing as a “video podcast”. You can have a video. You can have a podcast. You can have both, but you cannot have a “video podcast”. I will die on this hill.
Also this guy actually had a podcast but abandoned it late last year. Presumably because they couldn’t monetize it properly. This is exactly the kinda bullshit that we’re seeing more and more, and why I’m calling this out.
Please don’t support channels like this. Please stop calling it a “video podcast”. It’s just a video interview.
So since I’ve never owned an iPod I’ve never truly listened to a podcast? Or does the person creating it have to own the iPod?
You never needed an iPod to listen to a podcast.
But it’s not called droidcast. And Wikipedia says video podcasts exist so I’m not sure what you’re trying to get at.
But it’s not called droidcast.
Not sure what your point is? The technology was popularized and dubbed by Apple, not Google. If Google had done it, they could have just as well called it that and it would make no tangible difference.
And Wikipedia says video podcasts exist so I’m not sure what you’re trying to get at.
Are you aware that Wikipedia is also user-editable? I don’t care what Wikipedia says, use your brain.
Ask yourself what is a podcast? Why is it not called “radio”? Why is it not called “video”? Are all podcasts audio interviews? Apply some basic sense here. Watch the old videos from when Steve Jobs introduced it and listen to how he described it.
…yes? What about it?
The apple podcast website has video podcasts.
Are you aware Wikipedia has sources?
Then cite the sources, there’s no reason to use Wikipedia as an unnecessary middleman.
Cites dictionaries
Once again I’m going to ask you to appeal to a sense of logic and reason instead of authority. These definitions make zero sense.
For example your second source says “downloaded over the internet” and since YouTube doesn’t allow you to download videos, YT videos would be omitted from that definition.
I’ma listen to respected sources, not some rando on Lemmy.
Weren’t they called videocasts at one point?
I don’t really think that’s a great word either. If you break down “podcast”, pod = iPod, obvi, because that’s how they were originally played back. “Cast” (as in “broadcast”) suggests the method of distribution across the web (RSS).
You don’t need to reinvent a new word for every type of video. They’re just called videos. If you wanted to be more specific you could call it a “video interview”, as I alluded to above.
Language evolves
And I would argue that language “evolution” is fucking stupid if all meaning is stripped from the words, as it has been here. Language “evolves” because lazy people allow it to. The whole purpose of a language is to create a common understanding of communication. If that definition is eroded to the extent that there is no longer a common understanding, that is not evolution, that is devolution.
It also abused by many to intentionally conflate meanings to fit an agenda.
Why call it a podcast? Digital audio interviews existed before the iPod. Just following your logic.
I guess my point it, why does it matter? We both know what it means. The language has accomplished its goal of communication.
You’re not following my logic because you don’t understand it. A podcast is not a “digital audio interview”.
The core concept of what makes a podcast a podcast is the method audio files are distributed (RSS).
I guess my point it, why does it matter?
Because you’re conflating an open distribution method with a proprietary one.
We both know what it means.
You obviously don’t understand what it means.
The language has accomplished its goal of communication.
It didn’t actually. If it had, I wouldn’t have pulled up my podcast app to find and listen to this episode, only to find that it didn’t exist.
