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To: J R KARY who wrote (15985)	7/27/1998 6:56:00 PM
From: Alomex	Respond to of 213177

Who could the customer(s) be ? And as a partner in AIM does AAPL share in PowerPC revs to "customers"(like Video Stream International) ? And will AAPL vend the (Mac OS Lite) OS ? The customers are hardware manufacturers that use the PowerPC for embedded systems. No benefits for Apple.

To: J R KARY who wrote (15985)	7/27/1998 7:07:00 PM
From: Scott Crumley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Jim, It has been my hope, for quite a while, that Apple will manage to leap frog RealNetworks in streaming audio and video. Rumors of advanced compression in QT 3.1, coupled with the DSP abilities of Altivec, suggest that this goal may now be within reach. The Video Stream Intl. piece is an indiction of this. Other comments have suggested that QT streaming video will not only surpass Real Audio/Video in performance, but will not require a special server, as the RealNetworks product does. If Apple can capture this market through Quicktime, it will be huge. I'm hoping Steve will shed some light on this at Seybold. Regards, Scott

To: J R KARY who wrote (15985)	7/27/1998 9:25:00 PM
From: Scott Crumley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Jim, Scott your post indicates the above and this news item suggests the PowerPCs from Motorola will be available to many customers, not just AAPL , different from MacCentral's report of it today : I got this from an interesting article at MacOS Daily, that mainly discussed Motorola's reversal on it's ridiculous anti-Mac posture. An engineer with Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector wrote to explain why: "I don't like the migration to NT," he said, "I will tell you this: the PowerPC roadmap has changed and no longer will the Mac market be the primary focus of the chips. You will see this chip be pushed more in the automotive and networking applications directions as opposed to just making faster and faster Macs. The reason: the potential of this architecture is too great to limit it solely to the desktop market, and Motorola knows that. There are 3 main cores that will be focused upon, and PowerPC is one of them. macosdaily.com (As soup says: cribbed from AAPL Yahoo) Scott