“In addition to the new searching, browsing and back up features for office documents (Finder, Dock, Quick Look, Cover Flow, Spotlight, Time Machine) and new support for collaborative information sharing (Mail, iChat, iCal, Server), Mac OS X Leopard also advances support for audio and video media in QuickTime, iTunes, Photo Booth, Front Row, and other applications,” Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider.
McLean covers:
• The Origins of QuickTime
• Hardware Sales Push Sophisticated Software
• Desktop Video Publishing
• The QuickTime Canyon Scandal
• Expansion of the QuickTime Parachute
• QuickTime Reborn
• Microsoft Goes On the Offensive
• The Tables Turn for QuickTime
• A New Trajectory for QuickTime
• New Applications for QuickTime
• New QuickTime Hardware
• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger & QuickTime 7
• New QuickTime Features in Leopard
• Quicktime Applications in Leopard
• QuickTime Streaming Server
• HD-DVD and Blu-Ray
Find out what’s new in Leopard and the origins of the ideas behind rich media on the desktop in the full article here.
Can’t wait…….
Jim
I have it running right now.
IT”S SOOOOOOOOOOOO FAST. Truly an amazing upgrade to an already amazing OS.
My new iMac Al, loves it.
When speaking of Quicktime, we cannot ever forget the “Knife the Baby” incident.
“The QuickTime Canyon Scandal”
There’s a bedtime story I’ll bet Gates and Ballmer’s kids have never heard. Not the truth at least.
Tiger ran faster in “bowling ball” iMac than Panther did on my machine. Regardless that Apple advises not installing Leopard in machines having under 8 hundred something MHz clock speed, is it possible that Leopard will run faster than Tiger on old iMac? Thanks.
CandTsmac^^^hehehe. Enjoy. I have to wait and save up for my Mac Mini and iMac….not to mention I need a portable and iPhone.
Just hope my QuickTime Pro will remain pro when i upgrade to Leopard… (It’s included in my recent Final Cut Pro Studio, and i badly need it… Though Leopard isn’t expensive, i wish not to have to pay again…)
Neither forget nor forgive.
However, the really interesting thing about McLean’s article is that it shows how the best laid plans of a dominant monopoly can act as the foundation for a disruption event that ultimately achieves the precise opposite of what was intended.
If you take the article at face value, Microsoft’s mistake was that the “knife the baby” incident was the genesis of a period of Macintosh-oriented QT development that led to the creation of iTunes and, by extension, the iPod.
It could be argued that a more “laissez-faire” attitude to Apple’s overtures to port QuickTime software onto Windows might have led to Apple concentrating more on video before the market was ready and that the company might have died in the process; instead, faced with a hostile platform which actually was actually xenophobic to an external developer, Jobs and his cohorts decided to create a highly-evolved MP3 player.
Additionally, as a result of MSFT throwing its weight around, people appear to have moved around the industry merely to land up as Apple employees which was the very antithesis of what was desired.
The point of all of this is that, just as all abusive political systems crumble in the end (often leaving behind evidence of their own malfeasance), commercial dictatorships (aka monopolies) often make the mistake of becoming so obsessed with total spectrum dominance (as I believe the military like to call it) that they forget how to deal with a committed visionary opposition.
Politically, we Brits made that mistake in the eighteenth century in Colonial America and we got our asses handed to us on a plate, we made the same mistake in India in the 20th century. Commercially, you can find any number of similar stories: IBM (twice, once with Gene Amdahl and again with Compaq), Cullinet (who got screwed by Oracle), the old AT&T;, take your pick.
A good mate demonstrated a QuickTime movie to me back in ’91, it was of a Sony disc player that was little more than a quarter of the size of a CD, it just took up a segment of the disc with most of the image being of the spinning disc. I was quite unimpressed only having a CP/M computer at the time and mentally comparing it to a TV – it was ’93 I got my first Mac.
It is true that the bad guys (or those who lose their way) fall in the end, unfortunately there seems to be an infinite number of bad guys waiting to take their places. Often they come from the same extended group and all are supported and backed by those who control much and seek to control everything, the bankers. More unfortunate still is that the process is accelerating as people fail to grasp understanding because knowledge and technology has been promoted so highly. IT is great but should it be removed folks are left with nothing (try surviving a power cut for a few days without your Mac).
IT has its place but the other side, understanding of natural processes and phenomena, have been sidelined to such an extent that many people fail to realize their important or even their existence.
Thank g-d for Macs, without them there would by now only be Windows*, thank g-d for Steve because he seeks to put power in the hands of people whereas Gates et al only seek to take it away.
*Also thank g-d for independent people, for they have created Linux. Thank the devil for Microsoft.
gandalf…to scared to spell God but u spelled devil. mmm wacky man.