Apple Computer Inc is beginning to see more potential in the QuickTime technology that it’s had on the market since 1991. At the Apple developer conference in San Jose yesterday, interim CEO Steve Jobs compared QuickTime, its multi-platform technology for capturing, editing and playing back digital video and audio content, to Adobe Systems Inc’s PostScript, the standardized display language for printers. The next release, due out this Fall, will include support for full streaming video using the RTP real-time protocol and work as a standalone product as well as over the web. Apple introduced QuickTime 3 and Quicktime 3 Pro on March 30, and says that since then it’s had over 1 million downloads, two-thirds of them for Windows platforms.
