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gerbick
2010-02-02 , 00:00
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Originally Posted by sondjata View Post
I think we should be honest. A lot of the reasons why QT did not take off was due to rampant anti-Apple thinking among the corporate crowd. It took me ages to get my place of employ to deploy QT as a part of the standard image. I won't even discuss keeping it up to date. Simple put, they see Apple and eye-roll. As you poined out LiveStage had a nice means of putting interfaces on QT movies way back to the OS 9 days.
Interactivity, the size of the QT plugin - it was huge to download it in the 56k days, the downsizing of the Macromedia Shockwave plugin - which was half as small and getting smaller, among other reasons, Quicktime while great, the QTVR and other things were quite bloated and larger than other offerings at the time.

It's still about 10mb for a download - which is nothing now with our broadband speeds - but it's still bigger than Flash which is at 1.8mb or so for the MS IE install.

LiveStage... wow. That's taking me way back.