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Gently Down the Stream (11/12/98)
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It's hard for us to think of QuickTime 3 as being anything but "new" (in part because we only very recently got the QuickTime Pro upgrade with Mac OS 8.5, which stopped that irritating advertisement movie), but we'd better get used to the idea pretty quickly. QuickTime 4 is just around the corner, and if the rumors are correct, it'll contain some important features that a lot of people have been anxiously awaiting for a long, long time now. A CNET article talks about the rumored next release.
The latest guesses as to QuickTime 4's release date place the unveiling at the Macworld Expo this January-- less than two months away. The biggest new feature will reportedly be the overdue addition of a true streaming technology, which Steve Jobs demonstrated onstage at the WWDC last May; the addition of true streaming capability will make QuickTime on par with RealVideo and Microsoft's NetShow for live netcasts, but it gets even better: since this streaming will just be another function built into QuickTime, any application that can show QuickTime media-- and there are a lot of them-- will be able to show a live video feed. That could be the edge that makes QuickTime 4 the streaming technology of choice.
Some rumors state that Steve Jobs will unveil QuickTime 4 and its new capabilities by broadcasting his keynote speech live over the Internet. Of course, that rumor has surfaced before-- when it was announced that Jobs would be broadcasting his keynote from California for last July's New York Expo, the whispers around the water cooler were that he would make the speech via real-time QuickTime streaming. But Jobs showed up in person, instead, so we're not holding our breath. It'd be pretty dramatic, though.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/12/98 episode: November 12, 1998: The latest word from CompUSA is that the iMac is just picking up steam. Meanwhile, Apple's bit-jockeys prepare QuickTime for its next release by tacking on some bells, some whistles, and a big, hearty helping of streaming, and insults are bandied about in "Redmond Justice" during sweeps month...
Other scenes from that episode: 1144: Gaining Momentum (11/12/98) Well, so much for all those stories about the iMac's flagging popularity. You know the ones-- they all said that since demand in September wasn't as high as demand in August, the iMac was on the way out... 1146: Cucumber-Like (11/12/98) Okay, it's official: AtAT backs Intel exec Steven McGeady one hundred percent in the current "Redmond Justice" skirmish. McGeady's testimony, you probably recall, directly contradicts several statements made by Microsoft überguy Bill Gates during his videotaped deposition; Gates said his company never leaned on Intel to make them shut down their software development or conspire to screw with Java, while McGeady claims such overtures happened "repeatedly and on multiple occasions."...
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