iTunes 4.9 Adding Support For Podcasts

This could be cool! (especially for those that use iTunes currently). This could mean no more third party applications would be needed for downloading podcasts (i.e. no more ipodder, ipodderx, doppler, etc...).

Apparently this will be out in 60 days or so (yea, we'll see about that) and will allow a podcast user to either sign up for feeds like a current subscription application or go to featured feeds. These featured feeds will be selected by Apple. Rumor has it they will tend to feature the more 'professional' podcasts produced by current business and media companies. But we'll see.

Good article from eweek here:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1818895,00.asp