https://lists.apple.com/archives/QuickTime-VR/2004/Jul/msg00113.html https://lists.apple.com/archives/QuickTime-VR/2004/Jul/msg00... <i>More than 250 million c

https://lists.apple.com/archives/QuickTime-VR/2004/Jul/msg00113.html https://lists.apple.com/archives/QuickTime-VR/2004/Jul/msg00... <i>More than 250 million copies of QuickTime 6 have been downloaded in > less than two years since its release. According to Frost & Sullivans > 2004 Global Media Streaming Platform Report, between 2002 and 2003 > Microsofts and Real Networks worldwide market share percentages were > either stable or declining while QuickTimes market share increased to > 36.8 percent, a close second to Microsoft. Real Networks came in third > place with less than 25 percent of the worldwide streaming market > share.</i> Apple was never an "open source/open technology" white knight in video.