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10 Years Ago This Week: Apple Music and Podcasts forever apart?

To celebrate 10 years of Creator Weekly, I’m sharing  tech highlights from 2015  that still resonate 10 years later. This update was for the  week ending July 4, 2015. Ten years ago this week the Apple Music streaming service launched and Apple celebrated 10 years of popular podcasting. A Decade of Popular Podcasts Apple Podcasting Page , June 29, 2005 Podcasts aren't new. Most of the content isn't so different from radio news and talk shows. Digital downloads of episodic content were available for some shows starting in the late 90s (or even before if you dive into the discussions on the Wikipedia article about the history of podcasting). But Apple popularized the format. The popular iPod audio player combined with the popularity of blogging and easy-to-use audio production tools came together to encourage people to create their own shows. The term "podcast" is a combination of iPod and broadcast, underlining Apple's importan...