Apple & Podcasting

As an Apple lover, in most cases I will go out of my way to buy their products to support their cause (with the exception of my monitor at home, Dell was far too much of a deal to pass up), but when researching podcasts I came upon this link Creating Audio Podcasts and the very first step requires you to buy their Quicktime 7 Pro product if you don't already have it. This brings up the one issue that many people have with Apple and that is the fact that they come loaded with little to no software that is not already completely upgraded. I cringe when I say this, but Windows as far as I know releases Windows Media Player with everything. I mean Quicktime, unless you have the Pro version, doesn't even allow you to go full screen which is enough to piss a lot of people off. Oh well... I guess that's why people invented hacked serial numbers hahaha