Today, Apple announced that its QuickTime Player software has added 80 million new users, surpassing RealNetworks' addition of 75 million RealOne and RealPlayer users combined. The growth is said to be driven by "QuickTime's high-quality user experience, and the broad base of QuickTime-based authoring tools that enable the creation of news, entertainment and virtual reality (VR) content."
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Is that they're finally getting accounted for properly... Go Apple!
But in it's current form, QuickTime won't be able to compete with the more feature enriched and interactive serviecs that are coming out. QuickTime had a lot of downloads this year, but the fact is more people still use Real and such. C'mon Apple, blow the world away again with QT 6.
I guess if you consider choppy playback and horrible picture quality to be features then Real is the most feature rich media format on the planet.
He he...good call
Look at how well they support us X users...
Real's support of X is much more forward thinking than their support for 9 and other OSes. They don't support X at all, OS9 and Windows users will have to wait until Real goes out of business later this year before they get the same kind of support that X enjoys now.
Well, there is no real player for os X. What would we expect? I expected it to be out by now..
Real and Windows media still stream better than QuickTime. Quicktime gets a bit chunky if anything goes wrong. And sometimes when you start up a quicktime stream it looks like it got sprayed with squid ink. Quicktime has better video on demand. Though, I had hoped that mpeg 4 would save QT in streaming but its looking like the holders of intellectual property rights are going to nickel and dime that standard into the ground.
Windows Media plays pretty well on os X. But they did the same trick. That is, they only support a subset of the codecs on windows. Every now and then you will hit a link that says unsupported codec. Well, I should of figured...
If this article is true, why have most of the QT links that I used to access on various sites disappeared over the past half year? QuickTime has a noticeably superior quality—at least on Macs—but when hosts are forced to limit their streaming to only one or two, QuickTime is the first one to be cut. If QT supported asx and rm (or ram) files, it could dominate and make Internet access infinitely easier, especially since RealPlayer does look like its coming to OS X anytime soon. QT is being replaced with WMP in the same way that Netscape was rather rapidly replaced with IE within about a year.
No doubt this increase is caused by MS's decision to drop support for the EMBED tag.... Let me explain:
Content providers were forced to wrap their QT in the ActiveX code, which enables automatic download/install of plugins. So whenever a Windows user stumbles on some QT content, their browser will install/update QT as required! Apple can just sit back and count the hits. Pretty nifty, huh?
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lol
...and the little fact that the Star Wars trailers were in QuickTime format. Go QuickTime. :)