<i>More than 250 million copies of QuickTime 6 have been downloaded in
> less than two years since its release. According to Frost & Sullivans
> 2004 Global Media Streaming Platform Report, between 2002 and 2003
> Microsofts and Real Networks worldwide market share percentages were
> either stable or declining while QuickTimes market share increased to
> 36.8 percent, a close second to Microsoft. Real Networks came in third
> place with less than 25 percent of the worldwide streaming market
> share.</i>
Apple was never an "open source/open technology" white knight in video.
"proprietary acceleration techniques"
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