Platform Racism in Tech Podcasts (or Why I Stopped Listening To The Drill Down podcast)
I listen to a lot of podcasts, a lot, most of them technology based, Tech News Today is probably the podcast I listen to most hours and the Engadget podcast the most anticipated (tell you why in a minute).
Before anyone starts to think I’m a crazy Google fanboy I just want to say I love my iPad 2 and it is a really great piece of technology, and might be one of the most revolutionizing pieces of products since the iPhone. I owned the first and second generation iPhone before I switched my smartphone to a Nexus One.
The problem facing podcasts and the podcasts hosts is that they just don’t come of as experienced enough, or objective enough, and it has almost become a sort of platform racism in today’s podcast society. I was listening to The Drill Down podcast (a quite small and cozy tech-news podcast) today and I felt like it was one of the worst situations like this I’ve ever heard.
