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Apple, Sorenson settle lawsuits

updated 04:50 pm EDT, Wed October 2, 2002


Apple and Sorenson today announced the settlement of a pending federal court lawsuit that had been brought by Apple in April, 2002. The settlement provides for the dismissal of all claims and counterclaims, altough neither company has provided details on the settlement. Apple sued Sorenson in April 2002 claiming breach of contract with the release of Soreson Spark, which it said used technology that was restricted to QuickTime. Sorenson responded with a counterclaim in July using a memo sent from Steve Jobs as evidence that Apple did not have exclusive rights to the compression technology.


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    Lovers...

    Fight and make up.

    jrbd

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    sorenson

    I hope that Sorenson wont be negatively affected by all this. Damned Apple, rottten to the core!

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    Hopefully...

    Hopefully the deal had some goodies in Mac users future!

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    Flash vs. QT and more...

    The reason for this is the fact that Apple knows that Macromedia is looking to make flash plug-in a video player for streaming media, this would automatically make flash as big as media player and bigger then real audio. Think about it, it is natural progression, although Quicktime does multimedia very few people use it for that as it is not optimized for it. Flash however was built for multimedia but not video. Sorenson starts offering flash great compression and it is competing with QT.

    The only thing that will save QT is the consumer/prosumer digital video market, Flash can't touch QT there and MPEG4. What Apple needs to do is offer an application to product multimedia MPEG4, like ishell 3.0 but with no license involved. Yes Totally Hip does offer this, but it is expense, and they lost direction about 2 years ago when it focused on consumers slide show and compression software. It should have stayed on the QT multimedia Livestage, version with was nothing more then a 2.25 with a different interface and version is $900! An upgrade from 2.x is $500... They (Totally Hip should go for volume and not a select few as they are just killing the QT multimedia market by being to expense.

    My thoughts,
    Charles Mason

    P.S. I have stock in Totally Hip (lost big time) and Apple (even money)

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    Update...

    Amend to my statement above:

    Totally Hip Livestage Version 3 was a version 2.x with a little better interface.

    Upgrades to version 4 is $900 new, $300 upgrade from version 3 and $500 from version 2. This cost only digging their own grave.

    Apple could purchase Totally Hip or purchase iShell as it is easier to use, but not made for online use... hum.

    Regards,
    Charles

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