“Apple has published senior director of product marketing Quicktime and graphics Frank Casanova’s recent keynote presentation to a key mobile telephony trade show. The presentation is available in QuickTime format. It was delivered last week at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment 2004 conference in San Francisco,” Macworld UK reports.
“Major cell phone carriers Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and Japan’s NTT DoCoMo and KDDI use QuickTime on their servers to manage media for emailing photos and other services.
Casanova revealed marketshare figures that showed Windows Media with 38.2 per cent of the multimedia market; QuickTime with 36.8 per cent, and Real Player with 24.9 per cent,” Macworld UK reports.
Watch the keynote here.
First pest! Been a while.
And Real’s market share is almost irrelevant in that it can only go down — the sooner the better. As for Windows Media … that ain’t no standard.
It should be noted that Apple has already mentioned their market share in June (the same numbers).
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/jun/23quicktime.html
The cool thing is that while MS is #1, their growth is remaining flat and Real is #3 and dropping. Apple on the other hand is a close #2 to MS (36.8 v. 38.2) and GROWING.
Quicktime is clearly much more versatile and industry standards compliant. Not only that, but it makes exporting from one standard to another brainlessly easy. Why the news networks insist on the obviously inferior Windows Media and (eww) Real for displaying their video on the internet really baffles me. Neither one of them has any future in terms of improving quality while decreasing file size.
“First pest…” A Freudian slip?!
O.K. Apple doesn’t think an iPod Video is a good idea, but when talking about mobile phones small screen video is considered cool. Sounds like a contradiction to me. Obviously, there is a certain amount of “short clip video” that is perfectly acceptable for the small screen. The key is downloading it to the iPod wherever you find yourself.
Bobby.. how long does it take to watch one of those phone clips..
A movie is 2 hrs long.. you wanna stare at the ipod screen watching a movie on the subway for 2 hrs.. it’s not practical whatsoever..
watching a vid attachment to an email.. is different
the key= TIME
the video clips people are watching on phones are sent from other phones. And the content is friends and family. Not commercial content.
I don’t think there is currently any video that is acceptable for the small screen. Video on phones has been heavily promoted as a means for telcos to get back the investment in spectrum bandwidth. It seems however that customers aren’t sharing their movies or pictures, both continue to be loss making ventures. Telcos hope when the costs comes down people will share more but to date there is no evidence that they will.
“First Pest”, I thought that was a great pun.
does WMV even offer scrubbing? Its at version 10 and still no scrubbing!ha HA HA ahahahaahaha HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAAHAHAAHAH
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-paul
By the way, this presentation is an abbreviated version of what Tim Schaff gave in his “Graphics and Media State of the Union” presentation at the WWDC 2004. So, if you want more information about QuickTime, his presentation is worth watching… http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jun/wwdc_2004_qt_sotu/wwdc_2004_qt_sotu_ref.mov
[As I do with other streaming Quicktime videos, rather than watching the tiny web image, I saved it to my desktop and played it back on the QuickTime Player, where I could adjust the video size and audio parameters.]
Bobby, Steve Jobs doesn’t want to add video into the iPod, but that doesn’t mean quicktime shouldn’t be pushed aggressively to other companies that intend to add video to their products.
I agree with Ary, I’m sick of the lack of available Quicktime files out there. It seems like I see Real and WMP everywhere, but it’s very rare to see Quicktime. What is wrong with these groups? If they don’t want to use Macs that’s one thing (although they show right there that they’re morons) but Quicktime is cross-platform, and has been for years. It’s far superior to Real or MS’s offerings. I think it’s because it’s Apple’s. Maybe Apple should spin Quicktime into a separate entity like they did with Filemaker so that it can get more respect from the brain dead.
“does WMV even offer scrubbing?”
I wish QuickTime player had the option to disable live scrubbing. Depending on the length of the movie and the encoding format, simply nudging the timeline throws up a spinning CD and 100 % processor usage for 20 seconds or longer.
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