Apple Celebrates 100 Million QuickTime 4 Downloads With Rolling Stone Announcement

by , 7:00 AM EDT, October 11th, 2000

At this week's QuickTime Live! conference, Apple announced that QuickTime 4.x has been downloaded over 100 million times since the product's launch last year. Bouyed by the success of the Star Wars: Episode 1 movie trailer and superior cross-platform ease of use and performance, QuickTime continues to evolve as a leader in the Web media market.

Apple also announced that RollingStone magazine has pegged QuickTime as the medium for their new Web broadcasts of the RollingStone Concert series. According to Apple:

Apple today announced that more than 100 million copies of its QuickTime 4 software have been distributed to Mac and Windows users worldwide, and that RollingStone.com is launching a special concert series site where music performances from top musical acts will be streamed exclusively in the QuickTime format. Additionally, the QuickTime TV (QTV) network now features more than 50 premium channels of video, music and news from leading international content providers.

Since its release less than a year-and-a-half ago, more than 100 million copies of the cross-platform QuickTime 4 player have been distributed worldwide. Building on the momentum of QuickTime 4, Apple today introduced a public preview of QuickTime 5, which features an updated media player with a new QTV network channel display and new audio controls; a new component downloader for adding plug-ins on the fly; and support for new web codecs including Macromedia Flash 4, Cubic VR and Shoutcast. The QuickTime 4 player for Macintosh and Windows users, as well as the QuickTime 5 Public Preview for the Mac, are available for download from more information about QuickTime related news at the Apple web site.

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