Apple Announces QuickTime 6.3 with Support for 3GPP

MARKHAM, Ontario—June 3, 2003—Apple® today announced QuickTime® 6.3, theindustry's first mainstream solution to support the 3rd GenerationPartnership Project (3GPP) standard and to deliver a foundation for thecreation, delivery and playback of rich multimedia content over wirelessnetworks. Building on the success of QuickTime 6, which surpassed 100million downloads in less than 10 months, QuickTime 6.3 enables users toshare high-quality video, audio and text on a new generation of wirelessdevices including cell phones and PDAs. QuickTime 6.3 delivers extensivesupport for the 3GPP standard, including Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) andAdaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) audio, MPEG-4 and H.263 video, 3G Text (TX3G) andnative .3gp file format support.

“QuickTime's support of open standards like MPEG-4 and 3GPP now make it thebest technology for creating and deploying content in the wireless world,”said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide ProductMarketing. “QuickTime 6.3 delivers the first 3GPP content creation andplayback software and extends our industry leading support of open standardsbeyond the desktop into the mobile market.”

“NTT DoCoMo's FOMA is the standards-based 3G service which allows users toenjoy “i-motion” video clip distribution and “i-motion mail” video clipemail service,” said Takeshi Natsuno, Managing Director of NTT DoCoMo'si-mode Planning Department. “We are thrilled that QuickTime 6.3 has madestandards-based content creation and desktop playback a reality for NTTDoCoMo subscribers that can now share personal movies captured on theirphones with friends and family on Mac and PCs.”

“Nokia welcomes the release of QuickTime 6.3, featuring support for 3GPPcodecs and formats,” said Janne Juhola, senior technology manager,Multimedia Technologies, Nokia. “Our company is strongly committed to thecreation of an ecosystem in which open standards ensure interoperabilityacross a wide range of device categories, networks, services andapplications. Nokia believes the inclusion of 3GPP support in QuickTimecreates a wealth of exciting new opportunities for both desktop and mobilephone users.”

Extending the reach of multimedia to a new generation of wireless devices,QuickTime 6.3 support for 3GPP delivers high-quality video, audio and textfor use in end-to-end, standards-based content delivery solutions. Thehigh-performance MPEG-4 video codec and the time-tested H.263 video codecboth provide excellent results at low data rates. The modern AAC audio codecdelivers exceptional quality music at a broad range of data rates while AMRprovides narrowband audio encoding designed specifically for speech. 3G Textsupport in QuickTime 6.3 is time-based for accurate synchronization oftitling and captioning with audio and video tracks.

Additional QuickTime 6.3 features include automatic streaming transportdetection for a more reliable streaming experience, improvements to DV audioand video synchronization and enhanced support for Apple's Keynote™, iMovie™ and iDVD™ applications. QuickTime 6.3 is available immediately as a free download for Mac® and Windows users at 102.p.syniva.es/quicktime.

QuickTime is Apple's industry-leading, standards-based software fordeveloping, producing and delivering high-quality audio and video over IP,wireless and broadband networks. As the platform of choice for contentcreators worldwide, QuickTime delivers the full media experience forthousands of unique software titles and enhanced music CDs. QuickTime waschosen by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as thebase file format for MPEG-4 and is at the core of the 3GPP standard.

Apple Canada Inc. is headquartered in Markham, Ontario and is a wholly-ownedsubsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc. Apple products are available at more than450 Authorized Apple Canada Dealer locations across Canada.

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