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Slow And Steady And DONE (6/8/99)
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It's finally here: the official, honest-to-goodness non-beta release version of QuickTime 4. And while few, if any, people who upgrade from any version of the "preview release" beta will notice much of a difference, it does our heart good to know that Apple finally got the product out the door. After all, if they hadn't released a public beta a couple of months ago, it would have been well over a year between Steve Jobs' first memorable public demonstration of QuickTime Streaming at last year's WWDC and this final release of the software for general consumption. That doesn't exactly set any land speed records in the development world, but we like to think that Apple took the time to get things right.
So those of you who were brave enough to have leapt in feet first and have been running beta versions for the last couple of months, just run the QuickTime Updater application in your QuickTime folder to upgrade to the release version, or wait for QuickTime itself to prompt you for an update. The more cautious among you who avoid beta software as if it were some virulent alien strain of flesh-eating bacterium can now feel (relatively) safe in downloading Apple's latest multimedia software and jumping into the heady world of live streaming QuickTime video.
And speaking of live video, Apple's press release about QuickTime 4 finally going "primetime" confirms the news we discussed a few days ago about a couple of new channels joining the QuickTime family: FOX News and FOX Sports are the latest stream-licious additions to the burgeoning line-up, with a dash of Weather Channel thrown in for good measure. Sure, it's not the blockbuster entertainment value we were all hoping for, but it's something new, at any rate-- and if you watch the Weather Channel for a few hours straight, you can start to ascribe personalities to the storms and fronts and it all turns into a giant melodrama. (Then again, that's probably not normal, is it?) For all the streamed QuickTime you can handle, take a look at Apple's ever-expanding Live Showcase and feast your eyes.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 6/8/99 episode: June 8, 1999: QuickTime 4 makes its official debut as a "finished" product, accompanied by streaming versions of FOX Sports, FOX News, and The Weather Channel. Meanwhile, Apple has a tough time squeezing out enough PowerBooks, much to the chagrin of retailers everywhere, and more Mac-centric info on the Vice President Formerly Known As Peter Brady surfaces, thanks to the ever-watchful AtAT audience...
Other scenes from that episode: 1590: Something About Laptops (6/8/99) So what is it with Apple and laptops? Over the past few years, it seems that when new products get introduced by the good folks in Cupertino, it's the portables that suffer the longest delays and the bumpiest debuts... 1591: Bradys Dig Macs (6/8/99) A couple of days ago we voiced our delight at having seen a blue and white G3 Power Mac in the background in a scene from E!'s "True Hollywood Stories" episode about The Brady Bunch. As it turns out, Christopher Knight (aka Peter "Scoop" Brady) is now active in the world of high-tech, and as he was interviewed, the familiar curves of the G3 rested on the desk behind him...
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