QuickTime 6 downloads exceed 25 million in under 100 days

Apple reports that in excess of 25 million copies of QuickTime 6 have been downloaded in under 100 days. “QuickTime 6 has taken off like a rocket, with over 25 million downloads in 100 days,” said Philip Schiller, senior vice president, worldwide product marketing. “Why pay for a proprietary streaming solution when Apple is offering the first widely distributed end-to-end, open-standards-based streaming solution for free?” Apple says that this number of downloads demonstrates “strong demand for the open standard MPEG-4 format upon which QuickTime 6 is based.” Read it here.