As the Apple Turns: Scene 1647: Waiting For The Splash (7/7/99)

Waiting For The Splash (7/7/99)

We don't mind saying that we're a little underwhelmed with QuickTime 4's reception so far. After waiting for a year or so for QuickTime to gain live streaming capabilities, we were expecting a bigger splash. When we first loaded up a live video broadcast over a piddly 28.8 kbps connection and found that we were actually able to see what was happening and even read text subtitles in the broadcast (whereas RealVideo had always just been a colored smudge), we figured lots of Internet video content providers would sit up and take notice. And when Apple announced that a fully functioning open source QuickTime server was available for free, we figured people would be tripping over each other to get in line.

Instead, nothing really seems to have changed. Sites that offered RealVideo before still offer RealVideo. Sites that streamed using Microsoft's technology still do. The only live streamed QuickTime video we've yet stumbled across all seems to be coming from Apple's own servers. Where's the love?

Well, maybe things will heat up now that Apple's announced a new version of its streaming server. Version 1.01 not only runs via Mac OS X Server, but it also supports "Linux on Intel-based systems." That ought to make a big difference right there; Mac OS X Server systems are few and far between when compared to the slew of Linux boxes floating around. There's also the little matter of performance improvements; Apple claims the latest version now supports up to 2,000 concurrent streams-- double what it was before. Let's see if that brings people around.

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The above scene was taken from the 7/7/99 episode:

July 7, 1999: Apple's stock reaches a new high, but what will happen after the quarterly results and the keynote address? Meanwhile, Stewart Alsop continues to complain about Windows but you sure don't see him switching to something else, and Apple revises its QuickTime Streaming Server to double performance and add Linux compatibility in hopes of speeding the revolution...

Other scenes from that episode:

1645: New Dizzying Highs (7/7/99) Just to clarify something in case it isn't obvious already: we at AtAT aren't money people. We don't play the stock market (nor do we understand it), end-of-quarter financial numbers generally put us to sleep, and when that guy Alan Greenspan starts talking on TV we generally start channel-surfing to find a rerun of Gilligan's Island or something...
1646: The Frowny Mask (7/7/99) Poor Stewart Alsop; the man will probably one day be studied as one of history's great tragic figures. He seems to be pretty technically-minded-- at least, we doubt he has any real difficulty setting the time on his VCR-- and yet, due to a single tragic flaw, his computing life appears to be one of misery and despair...

Or view the entire episode as originally broadcast...


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