>>this was a period when Apple’s QuickTime was regarded as a killer app >Quick Time was a mainstream mess to be avoided it like the plague There was NOTHING l

>>this was a period when Apple’s QuickTime was regarded as a killer app >Quick Time was a mainstream mess to be avoided it like the plague There was NOTHING like QuickTime before QuickTime. It enabled 1991 Adobe Premiere build by ex Quicktime engineer on Mac platform, 1991 Avid ported from Apollo $workstations$ to Mac thanks to QT. Microsoft and Intel got so scared of it they paid off third party Apple contractor to steal code. Microsoft shipped stolen code as part of Video for Windows update. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company https://www.theregister.com/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_150m/ https://www.theregister.com/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_... "the [QuickTime] patent dispute was resolved with cross-licence and significant payment to Apple." The payment was $150 million." "Intel gave this code to Microsoft as part of a joint development program called Display Control Interface." "Canyon admitted that it had copied to Intel code developed for and assigned to Apple. In September 1994, Apple's software was distributed by Microsoft in its developer kits, and in Microsoft's Video for Windows version 1.1d."