Why aren't podcasts sycned wirelessly like iBooks?

[PhazonUK]

I don't know about anyone else, but it really bugs me that I have to sync my iDevices to my MacBook and vice versa just for my podcasts to update upto the point I last listened to them.

I only listen to 2 podcasts but they are both over an hour long and it's irritating that I have to manually keep them up to date.

If Apple can sync iBooks bookmarks and things up to date wirelessly then why can't they do the same with podcasts?

 

[MotionxxUSxx]

Wirelessly posted (Iphone 4: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

Try podcaster in the app store. It's a great little podcast app that allows you to keep everything updated.

 

[trigonometry]

I think has something to do with AT&T's 20mb download cap.

 

[jacollins]

Because most podcasts are over 20mb, AT&T's cap on a single download.

Yeah, I agree it's size, and I agree that over 3g that it's because of AT&T. The funny thing is you can still stream it.

However, you still can't sync them wirelessly over WiFi either. Again, I think it is due to size. Some of the video podcasts I watch are 600-700 megs. That takes a while over WiFi.

 

[Daveoc64]

I think has something to do with AT&T's 20mb download cap.

That would be iOS's 20MB download cap over cellular networks.