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TUAW Podcast #23: There and Back Again with the iPhone

by David Chartier May 18th 2007 at 3:00PM

The TUAW podcast is back in effect ladies and gents, though this week we're a tad late due to some technical difficulties. Nevertheless, expect a steady new stream of podcasts and screencasts from here on out, starting with today's entry: TUAW Podcast #23: There and Back Again with the iPhone. Fellow TUAW blogger Michael Rose and I explore the iPhone's past, including how far back speculation about one of Apple's most anticipated devices actually reaches, as well as when Apple first gave away any hints that it was even considering such a device (hint: it's older than the 4.5 years Jobs mentioned at Macworld 07).

We then take a look at the state of the iPhone now, less than a month from its expected release, why the corporate and enterprise worlds are taking an unexpected interest in it, what happened with the 'iPhone/Leopard delay' email hoax Engadget experienced on Wednesday and how powerful that kind of news can really be. Heck, even a tech-savvy dolphin makes it into the show - where else are you going to hear that?

Michael wanted to clear up one specific piece of data we spoke about, however: we were discussing some differences between the iPod and iPhone, and Michael indicated the MP3 player retail market hit $600m in March. Turns out he was a tad high, as these numbers from Bloomberg put the number for MP3 players sold at retail at just under $225m. Just wanted to make sure we're keepin' it real.

You can snag a copy of this 36 minute, 17 MB AAC (m4a) podcast from our iTunes Store Podcast directory, this direct link or our own podcast rss feed. Enjoy!

Update: It took a couple of days for iTunes to catch up with our podcast feed, but as of Monday the show is appearing on the iTunes store. Sorry for the delay.


Show Notes

Links mentioned in the podcast:

- Engadget official response to Apple delay memo issue: http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/regarding-yesterdays-apple-news/
- MacRumors iPhone speculation from 2002: http://www.macrumors.com/2002/08/18/apple-iphone-rumors-speculation/
- Jason O'Grady isn't buying (still?): http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/index.php?p=335
- Fierce Wireless timeline of iPhone speculation: http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/timeline-apple-iphone-rumors-1999-present
- The Onion's Flappy the Dolphin on the iPhone: http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/test_driving_the_new

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David Chartier

For the record, we had some technical difficulties with the feed that the iTunes Store watches. Our crack team of code ninjas applied some of their magic and we should be good to go from now on.

May 21 2007 at 11:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Rose

Hi everyone,

The iTunes Store appears to be caught up (at last!) with the podcast feed.

May 21 2007 at 9:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Frank

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't talking about hardware failure rates in Rev. A products, per se, I was more talking about the feature set. Things like battery life, etc. usually get a major bump in Rev. B.

May 21 2007 at 12:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
YodaMac

Still not showing up in iTunes. I am subscribed to your podcast, and no new episode is showing up, nor can I find it by checking the iTunes store myself.

Please post an update if/when this is fixed. Thanks.

May 21 2007 at 11:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Phaedrus

This podcast isn't showing up in itunes...

May 20 2007 at 11:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ThunkDifferent.com

Thanks for the podcasts, good stuff. i look forward to some more rollicking anda' rolling next week.

Have a great weekend!

May 19 2007 at 9:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Chartier

I'm honestly not sure what the problem is with the file, especially since I brought it into iTunes as a WAV, edited all its metadata and used iTunes to turn it into an m4a file. Plays perfectly fine in mine. I'll take a better look into this.

As for the iTunes Store, I had to ping their system that checks feeds for podcasts. For some reason it wasn't picking this latest episode up, but it should soon.

May 19 2007 at 7:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rich

I can't get this podcast on my ipod either. The feed in iTunes doesn't have it, and when I download the .m4a file, dragging it into iTunes does nothing. The only way to listen is embedded in the page in Safari.

May 19 2007 at 5:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Rose

Thanks narco. The plight of the cetacean cellphone user is nothing to make light of. :-)

May 19 2007 at 12:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Rose

#5 -- Reg, are you talking about this episode? It's not video, audio only (.m4a, AAC format) and should play fine on an iPod. I'll double-check it on mine.

I didn't do the encoding for this episode (or earlier ones) but I'll ask David to check his settings.

May 19 2007 at 12:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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