Why doesn't it (always) sync?!

My main issue with the Podcasts app is simply the unreliable synchronization of playing positions between devices. Either that or I'm wrong about what it's supposed to do.
To be clear, I'm not talking about automatic sync with iTunes via iCloud - that's coming in iTunes 11 (or so they say).
What truly bothers me is something Apple says the app does and most of the time it simply doesn't.
Let's say I start playing a podcast on my iPhone and interrupt it some time afterwards. Later in the day, I pick up my iPad, launch the Podcasts app, start playing the same podcast and it resumes exactly from where it had stopped before on the iPhone. Great, it's working as advertised! Well, from that moment onwards, synchronization won't happen anymore. I stop playing it on my iPad, start playing on my iPhone and it begins where it stopped earlier in the day (as if the period when it was playing on the iPad just didn't happen). Then I go back to the iPad and it will resume from where it had stopped on the iPad. So the two devices now each has its own playing position for the same podcast, which drives me mad! Does this make sense to anyone? Shouldn't it always sync?!

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