No single company should own podcasting's Yellow Pages
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there's not one company that owns all of DNS, you know, it's it's fairly distributed at the top, you know, there are, obviously financial interests, but it's distributed enough to where one company can't use can't push their own interests into the way that it functions.
Episode 1: Episode 1 00:57:07 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Even siding with Apple most of the time, Dave asks whether one company should control the directory for a supposedly open platform. No one company owns DNS; it's distributed enough that nobody can bend it to their interests. Podcasting instead had a centralized private default directory — the problem the Index was started to fix.