I knew all those early podcast hackers were just vying for time until someone bigger shuts them out. So they make these apps to subscribe and download a podcast, but are completely bug ridden, so they give the betas, heck alphas, out for free. Then they fix the bugs and decide to charge for the working version, one that might even have a feature or two mind you, and charge a lot while they're at it. $20+ is not something I'm willing to pay to basically have what is a glorified rss reader and http downloader. Shit, I could script my system to do that as it is. Oh wait, I forgot I already have. :p Kinda like the whole script that got this going in the first place. So to put a cocoa interface on it is worth the fifty thousand users and growing (I'm sure it's like a million or something now) each forking over $20 to do that? I think not. You're just a greedy bastard cashing in and you know it.

iTunes 4.9 adding support for podcasts

Oh yeah, the one problem you were all trying to create haxies for was just eliminated. So now how do you justify yourself?

Granted, there's still that world out there that doesn't use iPods and thinks Windows Media Player is an actual solution to playing your music that some of these podcast apps cater to, but I don't live in that world. I'm just glad that I can have my cake and eat it, too, without forking over more money to something that's supposed to be a free enterprise anyways.