First of all I welcome Apple to the Podcast scene, second thing is it is obvious that they talked to very few people in the podcasting community in the way they have implemented things.
First of all if you look at the shows that are on the main page a large percentage of these are commercial radio station shows. They obviously are branding podcasting from the get go as some sort of commercial variant of regular radio. Their are a handful of traditionally podcasters in that list.
They are not pulling in meta data from the majority of feeds, I and many others have graphics and meta data but that info is not being pulled in.
I have been searching their site and have yet to find any info that shows me how to be in compliance with whatever standard they are trying to set.
When you play a show manually it plays from the oldest to the newest, and not the top down. it does not add my show to the playlist which is going to be a problem, listeners are going to have to add your show manually to the playlist.
If they had only joined the conversation and talked to people outside of the few people that had access to the team at Apple we could have helped them with the launch.