So it's new for Apple. It's not new in general or even for Mac users, so if it doesn't do anything useful for you, why should you be excited about it? Apple has nothing to do with the media -- the podcasts were already freely available, so why should they get credit for that? Day one was quite some time ago, so, yeah, I expect Apple, which is supposed to be the home of slick innovation, to be a little slicker over something that they hyped. There's no excuse for mp3 files not to show up in Smart Playlists when they will if you download them with any other client. Absolutely, give credit where it's due -- and with this update, Apple has done nothing new to get credit for. The makers of the podcasts and the original podcast clients are the ones who deserve the credit. All Apple did was open a window for people who hadn't been curious enough to look for podcasts before.