PRESS RELEASE 07 February 2002

Apple’s QuickTime Surpasses RealNetworks’ RealPlayer

CUPERTINO, California - February 7th, 2002
Apple today announced that the results for calendar year 2001 are in — QuickTime 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’shigh-quality user experience, and the broad base of QuickTime-basedauthoring tools that enable the creation of news, entertainment and virtualreality (VR) content. Additionally, streaming media is increasingly beingused by corporations to deliver training, internal corporate communicationsand live streaming events, such as Apple’s record-breaking webcast of therecent Macworld San Francisco keynote introducing the new iMac.
“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, demonstratingconsumer electronics companies’ use of QuickTime to provide consumers withthe highest quality media playback experience. More than a dozen newsoftware titles incorporating QuickTime ship each day, as content creatorsworldwide choose QuickTime to deliver the fullest media experience.
To learn more about how creative and technology visionaries are using openstandards and QuickTime technology to shape the future of digital media,attend the annual QuickTime Live show which takes place in Los Angeles, California, from February 11th to 14th, 2002. To learn more about why QuickTime Live is the event for digital media visionaries to meet, learn and network, visit www.apple.com/quicktimelive.
Availability:
QuickTime 5 is available as a free download for Mac and Windows users atwww.apple.com/ie/quicktime. QuickTime Pro is Apple’s professional-level upgrade to the standard QuickTime Player and provides powerful content authoring and media encoding capabilities. QuickTime Pro is available for £25 (inc VAT) at www.apple.com/ie/quicktime/buy. Since it was launched, more than 1 million copies of QuickTime Pro have been sold.
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