I had this shower thought earlier and I actually wanted to post it in that community. The name I came up with was SmartWalkman, but later I realized that Walkman is Sony specific, so I doubt other companies would’ve gone for that name, but I didn’t want to let this shower thought slip so here I am now asking you guys.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    And here I was wondering why podcasts are still called podcasts when they barely had anything to do with iPods in the first place.

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      4 months ago

      iPods had an 82% share of the US market at the time the term was first used.

      https://www.theregister.com/2004/10/12/ipod_us_share/

      At the time a “broadcast” to you iPod made the name podcast pretty understandable.

      And there’s not much else I could think of to call it given technology at the time.

      MP3 player was the generic term. But MP3 cast feels clunky.

      I did hear audioblog used. But they weren’t all blogs.

      It really comes down to the fact that at the time everyone knew “pod” meant “iPod” and that’s it.