The Rise and Fall of Quicktime and the Spiders from Apple

It’s a reference to the David Bowie album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” and I think it suits the subject I will expound on: the rise and fall of Quicktime.

Once upon a time there were three behemoth video players known as Real, Windows Media Player and Quicktime.

These three video viewing programs controlled the way that people viewed video content on the web.