Ben Gilbert: preference

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…Yeah, he didn't want to use the word podcast and I'm not sure why that was. I think that he wanted to brand it his own thing. I don't think he had quite the momentum. It was Adam Curry that coined the term podcast. I think that Leo was thinking at the time (and I believe this is accurate) that he was thinking that it shouldn't be just about Apple and about the iPod because that's what podcast referenced. Because Leo was a big open-source advocate and things like that. It's so Leo. How can we make this more broadly applicable? Which makes sense, but once the snowball of the term podcast grabbed hold, there was no going back. It's like, here I own zero iPods and listen to my podcasts on Spotify who's actively suing Apple. It stuck pretty hard. Yeah, totally. I always thought a lot of those terms were just hilarious. The iPod, like I, when you used to put I in front of things, it meant the internet. I was used to saying these things out loud just to hear how ridiculous they were. Sometimes I still tell people to send me electronic mail because that's what E stood for in anything. It's so funny when you actually pronounce them out loud.…

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