Apple's QuickTime Surpasses RealNetworks' RealPlayer

Apple's QuickTime Surpasses RealNetworks' RealPlayer

Apple's QuickTime Surpasses RealNetworks' RealPlayer

CUPERTINO, California-February 7, 2002-Apple=AE today announced that the
results for calendar year 2001 are in-QuickTime=AE Player added 80 million
new users, exceeding RealNetworks' addition of 75 million new RealOne and
RealPlayer users combined. The source of this data is from recently
released information from RealNetworks and Apple. The most recent version
of QuickTime, QuickTime 5, was released in April 2001 and is on target to
reach 100 million downloads by April 2002.

The growth of QuickTime, Apple's industry-leading software for creating,
playing and streaming audio and video, is being driven by QuickTime's
high-quality user experience, and the broad base of QuickTime-based
authoring tools that enable the creation of news, entertainment and virtual
reality (VR) content. Additionally, streaming media is increasingly being
used by corporations to deliver training, internal corporate communications
and live streaming events, such as Apple's record-setting webcast of the
recent Macworld San Francisco keynote introducing the new iMac=AE.

"The data is simple and clear-in 2001 Apple added more QuickTime users than
Real added RealOne and RealPlayer users," said Philip Schiller, Apple's
senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "This doesn't even
take into account the tens of millions of QuickTime players that are being
distributed with digital cameras, software titles and enhanced music CDs."

QuickTime ships with more than 150 digital camera models, demonstrating
consumer electronics companies' use of QuickTime to provide consumers with
the highest quality media playback experience. More than one dozen new
software titles incorporating QuickTime ship each day, as content creators
worldwide choose QuickTime to deliver the fullest media experience.

To learn more about how creative and technology visionaries are using open
standards and QuickTime technology to shape the future of digital media,
attend the annual QuickTime Live show in Los Angeles, California, February
11 - 14, 2002. To learn more about why QuickTime Live is the event for
digital media visionaries to meet, learn and network, visit
http://www.apple.com/quicktimelive/.

Availability
QuickTime 5 is available as a free download for Mac=AE and Windows users at
www.apple.com/quicktime. QuickTime Pro is Apple's professional-level
upgrade to QuickTime Player and provides powerful content authoring and
media encoding capabilities. QuickTime Pro is available for $29.99(US) at
www.apple.com/quicktime/buy. Since it was launched, more than 1 million
copies of QuickTime Pro have been sold.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple
II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh.
Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to
students, educators, creative professionals and consumers around the world
through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings.

 
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