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RE: Quicktime market share

Yep, everybody thinks Steve Jobs saved Apple. In actuality it was QuickTime. Without QT, there is no x-platform iTunes, no generic architecture for reading/writing media formats - all prerequisites to the success of iPod.

 

QuickTime had little if anything to do with saving Apple.

 

A cross-platform iTunes would be straightforward to do without QuickTime. (Note that iTunes was originally based on SoundJam, which I don’t believe used QuickTime at all.)

 

And if I understand it correctly, the QT team is largely Canadian.

 

<slapping forehead>

 

— Charles

 

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