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To: Steve Martin who wrote (8395)	2/11/1998 9:44:00 AM
From: J R KARY	Respond to of 213177

Steve here's what the other Steve (Jobs) said Quoted in your Yahoo post : ''Over 50 million PCs have QuickTime installed today, making it by far the most widely adopted multimedia standard in the world,'' said Steve Jobs, Apple Computer's Interim CEO. ''Choosing QuickTime guarantees that the huge amount of QuickTime content being created and delivered today can be easily retargeted to be delivered in MPEG-4 in the future.'' " 50 million PCs " - Think Pixar and Disney/ABC may be also lurking somewhere in the co-founder of AAPL's mind as he guides its (AAPL) recovery ? Regards, Jim K.

To: Steve Martin who wrote (8395)	2/11/1998 10:08:00 AM
From: rhet0ric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Does Apple make money from QuickTime? I mean, it's clearly a good thing that QT is the de facto, and now the official, industry standard for multimedia--but how does that affect Apple's bottom line, if at all? rhet0ric

To: Steve Martin who wrote (8395)	2/11/1998 12:56:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Respond to of 213177

<<QuickTime's file format has been selected as part of the MPEG-4 standard.>> I think that this is one instance where the industry is ignoring MSFT's marketing muscle to select an obviously superior product for a standard. I've made Micrososft AVI movies with a compression that get me down to no less than 50 megabytes. On Quicktime, I can get the same speed, image quality, and vastly superior sound synchronization on as little at 12 megabytes. When you're talking about developing fast, high-quality audio-video on a multi-media database, you do not want your network slowed down by huge files. Also, with horrible audio synch on AVI format, you can view someone's presentation, but their lips will move and the audio comes a second later. It's like watching a poorly dubbed foreign movie. I've seen people laugh at CEOs broadcasting in this manner. -Bill_H