We generally seperate the two in terminology, the encoding of the images or waves being termed a codec. It forms part of a format, with the encoding of the actual moving images or audio waves being seperate from the encoding of the container. That's an awful answer to an awful question. The bottom line however is that Apple want to be able to say to the music industry that "we have X million users" when really they are saying "we have X million users running iTunesService.exe, but only a fraction of them actually use iTunes, but we want to omit that detail as the former marketing point is technically correct and way more sexy". Especially when they trojaned the iTunes install in via a Quicktime download. Just because someone has iTunes on their PC, it doesn't mean that they are an iTunes user.
Sounds like Apple has been reading Real's playbook. Things like hiding the free cut-down version on the site, so that you have to download other nonsense that you don't want. The reason RealPlayer is a maybe is because they have been doing some pretty shoddy tactics to get their marketshare and profits up. Quicktime, Firefox, RealPlayer (maybe) and Acrobad Reader. It's in the list of bog-standard things you do when installing e.g. I've never found a link to it on the Apple site.Īnd everyone has the Quicktime player on their PC. It is very difficult to get Quicktime without the iTunes bundle, first you need to know that they are bundled, then you need to google the link as the standalone Quicktime installer is hidden away on the site. If the former is the case, then it is completely bogus. What is this figure trying to say? Is it refering to the installed base, as in, how many unique software installs you have? Or is it saying that you have X users who fire up the app everyday to browse their music?
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