By John Gruber
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An excerpt from John Buck’s Timeline, on the announcement of QuickTime at WWDC in 1990:
Casey announced that QuickTime would allow the Macintosh to be the premier platform for digital media, and in doing so pre-empt Microsoft’s release of multimedia extensions to Windows 3.0.
In his own summary at the conference, John Sculley promised:
…the next generation of breakthrough applications will be on the Mac.
Sculley did not mention that work on QuickTime had not even started.
Announced with just a name.
★ Monday, 28 October 2013