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From Apple itself ...

"proprietary acceleration techniques"

http://web.archive.org/web/20010605082836/www.pa.msu.edu/~ha...



> Thursday, February 9, 1995

Steve Jobs was not at Apple between 1985 and 1997.


https://lists.apple.com/archives/QuickTime-VR/2004/Jul/msg00...

<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.




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