From: Joel M. Sciamma (joel_at_inventors-emporium.co.uk)
Date: Sun Apr 18 2004 - 13:37:48 PDT
Eric,
> BTW, I'm puzzled by your statement regarding QuickTime, which besides
> being universal on the Mac side, has significant penetration on the
> Windows side.
The fact that it's universal on the Mac means nothing, it's merely the
native format for that platform. Having being developed on the Mac, for the
Mac by Apple and bundled free with every machine, it would a titanic cock-up
if were not universal.
The significant penetration of QT that you mention has not stopped the BBC
from dropping its initial QT support in favour of Real long ago.
No one I know who uses Windows also uses QT, most don't even know what it
is. One that does thought it was a virus that was preventing his machine
from booting. (Must do the QA a bit better there...)
QT might hitch a ride on another service or product but no Windows user is
going to deliberately use QT instead of other, native media systems are
they?
QT is lovely software with great potential but currently a bit tame outside
the Mac. I was at the Apple developer briefings where QT was looking like a
new OS all by itself such are its powers, but has it had any real impact
outside the Mac to this point?
Can you give me a substantive non-Mac example of the use of QT?
Regards,
Joel.
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