Apple's podcast hosting and distribution platform — launched in 2005 as part of iTunes — which established the RSS-based open podcast ecosystem and remained the dominant podcast directory for 15 years.
Legitimized podcasting as a medium by integrating it into iTunes — bringing podcasts to tens of millions of iPod and iPhone users — while maintaining an open RSS standard that prevented any single company from monopolizing the ecosystem.
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