Many sites are talking about Quicktime Pro being available in the current betas of Snow Leopard. They’re all speculating that this will make it through to the release of the product.

I don’t think so. It’s a beta, people! Remember, the time where product features get tested prior to release? That’s all that’s happening here. Quicktime’s pro features out for testing. There’s absolutely nothing that suggests Apple will change their current marketing model in that.

And contrary to at least one article, there is no difference in the Quicktime binary – all that’s ever been needed is a key to unlock the Pro features. All that needs to be done is for that key not to be installed in the release version

In fact, I’m pretty sure this situation is no different from previous betas – those of Leopard and Tiger. I’m sure Quicktime was included with the Pro features enabled during the beta process then too.

So what’s the fuss here? People seem to be making a mountain out of absolutely nothing.