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> Some podcast apps (Apple Podcasts) don't support Atom, so then plain RSS is better.

Apple Podcasts stopped supporting Atom (sadly) a few years ago:

* https://podcasters.apple.com/4115-technical-updates-for-host...

Not sure why they decided to do so (lack of volume/traffic?).

As far as I can ascertain, and as I described in the last section of this article, they never actually supported it meaningfully. I believe that the iTunes client got Atom support, but not the iTunes Music Store, and that was the part that actually mattered.

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