Tim Hibbard

# re: People hate quicktime

oh, we truly do, we truly HATE Apple Quicktime! For a major computer company to push this maliscious, intrusive software on our systems is, or should be, CRIMINAL!

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We ALL hate Quicktime. If Microsoft can get fined so should Apple for it's Quicktime. Piece of CRAP !!!

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Quicktime sucks big time... I remove it form EVERY PC I touch.. Screw you apple... Make a better piece of software, and maybe I'll use it...

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Agreed in more ways then one. Years ago I purchased and Apple computer that was quickly obsoleted when the next rev rolled out. Apples response was "Buy the new rev"! Like I have that kind of money. the point is that Apple could not care less about it's customers. I install quicktime only as long as I absolutely have to and then take it off. No apple products, period!

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QuickTime isn't intrusive. However, you may not know how to control it with regards to your other media platforms. If you don't know how to use a computer, move to the Galapagos for an extended stay away from civilization.

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I hate it so bad, why is so crappy. Its so slow.!!!!!

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Dr. Parallax, you must be a Mac user or work for Apple. Quicktime IS intrusive. It adds itself to the startup so you have that crappy qttask running even when you tell it not to, it hijacks all the media associations even when you tell it not to, and doesn't put them back after you uninstall it. It's slow, it pops up 'purchase pro version now' all the time, and generally is crap in every conceivable way.

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God hates QuickTime and will damn it to hell!

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I think the most I hate about Quicktime is that little screen and it takes over my audio even if I disable it
Iam glad iam not alone

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I HATE QUICKTIME SO BAD, BUT SOME MOVIE FILES MAKE ME TO USE IT...GHURRRR!!!

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OH, AND DON'T GET ME STARTED WITH I-TUNES... ARGH!!!

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everytime quicktime is installed onto a computer, a cute kitten dies

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We at Apple spend considerable efforts to ensure that the software we engineer provides the best user experience that we can possibly deliver.
At times it might appear that the interface is more intrusive than you had maybe expected, however during our labs testing it has been proved beyond resonable doubt that this largely derives from the incredibly positive profile Apple has generated with it's customers worldwide, which ensures that when our software is accessed the user is always aware and grateful it is an Apple product, and one that they can rely on.
Of course we constantly strive to deliver a consistent user experience and we have determined through our lab testing that the best way to achieve this consistency is to raise the profile of Quicktime on the users computers, we have found that if we ensure Quicktime always starts with the computer the awareness of Quicktime is enhanced, even when the customer doesn't intend to watch any video content during their session, and installing icons on the desktop and quick launch toolbars go further toward maintaining Apples profile and reputation for quality software.
A positive by-product of our lab tests is the discovery that where we help the user by restricting their choice for alternative products and limit the users ability to 'accidentally' disable Quicktime the profitability of Apple is encouraged, especially where we enhance the user experience by providing additional functionality within Quicktime, but by not charging them for those facilities until they require them we are expanding the customers choice.
Additional capabilities like adding the superb iTunes facilities within the install package by default, only enhances the user experience further and continues to protect Apples long term viability and its capability of delivering similar excellent software well into the future.
I hope this goes some way to allay readers concerns and allow the prodigal consumer to return to the one true Apple.

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Quote:
"At times it might appear that the interface is more intrusive than you had maybe expected, however during our labs testing it has been proved beyond resonable doubt that this largely derives from the incredibly positive profile Apple has generated with it's customers worldwide, which ensures that when our software is accessed the user is always aware and grateful it is an Apple product, and one that they can rely on."

If what you say is true, then if i use msconfig and remove it from startup, then the application should only exist on my system if i have it installed and personaly executes the program.
But no, the damn thing keeps getting up in the taskbar taking resources i ONLY would want to give if its absolute necessary.
And that is as someone said earlier when there is no other format to show a movie in.

I belive apple pay big money to make companies discard other players to make quictime the only possibility.

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Steve Jobs, if that's really you up above, bite me. Your QT insists on playing my audio files directly in Internet Explorer and takes forever to load them, which is stupid because there's no option to disable that lame feature, if you could call it one. The solution I've found is simple: uninstall the intrusive QT, and never worry myself with Mac-for-PC products again.

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I am trying to install Quicktime so I can watch those MAC commercials. It is taking 20 minutes so far. I have installed Linux quicker.

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I hate it because it is intrusive, it has no function that other programs cannot perform better, and it looks ugly. No program has ever given me as much trouble. And this has been for as long as I've owned a pc. Every time it rears it's face, I curse and damn the sons of dogs who created it. And if their is any justice in the beyond, then every apple employee with burn in hell for having promoted either 'apple' or its lousy rotten products.

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the url is not valid.......Quicktime really does suck....

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I hate QT and will always do so, AND the F---ERS that made it. Not even if it was the last player on this planet would I use it again. I'd f***ing rather sing or act myself than to let that shitty, rotten, stinking piece of software touch my music or movie files. If there is a god, please let him strike swift and hard on those damned lines of programming that puts together that devilish piece of pest.

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Wow, apple sucks ipod, quicktime, itunes-Ha.
All Hype no action. Mommy and daddy apple say no you cant do that.
like who the f_ck are they they ? Apple computers and the ipod can't do anything right .
why do apple people think they are so smart ,when they have to do 8 steps to do what i can do with the click of a mouse?
Creative Zen M is way better then I-God the the false icon. now we have to deal with Quick time everywhere the worst player ever made.
My Zen M came with a built in radio and all the power cables,and conversion software came with it .
None of that crappy apple stuff,comes with anything .
Crapple is over priced crap.
just think if you bought a car and it could not go over 65 because the manufacture says so and then it didn't come with tires well thats How Apple does it buisness.We dont get sh_t for our money . then it doesn't work when you do buy all there crap anyway.
Now we are being forced to use Quicktime and it sucks.Help save us Bill G !
If Microsoft is trying to take over computing how come they only make software?

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I only use Quicktime because it is the format that my digital cameras use. Otherwise, I'd never install it on my system. I hate the buy pro nag screen, the inability to view full screen and the super annoying qttask TSR that always wants to be running. Why is it that so many software companies feel that the only reason you have a computer is to run their product, and so it should use as much system resources as possible at all times?

The only thing worse than Quicktime, is Realplayer.

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"The only thing worse than Quicktime, is Realplayer." (By Rob) That's not entirely true - there is actually a worst piece of crap than Realplayer and even Quicktime and it its everything Adobe has ever published. I would nuke them myself provided I had the bomb.

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Only thing I can say is quicktime has really jacked me up. This just reaffirms that i will never buy apple anything.

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I was stoked when i won a free iPod player - i needed a new mp3 player anyway. Then i discovered this Quicktime bullshit. I feel like slamming the iPod thru my own skull eveytime i plug it into the comp.

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I agree totally with Rob.

Victim...i belive Adobe just bought macromedia, sincearly hope that they dont mess up the goodies with their own stinking way of doing things

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If only Steve would listen! The perfect solution for stopping qttask from being started, or at least what I did, was delete the qttask.exe file. Then use winguardPro Demo to restrict the users from reinstalling "QuitTime"...(pun. I gave away my IMAC and swore never to return to Apple! And to this day, I do not deify Apple products. In fact, I can usually discourage anyone from buying one sharing my negative experiences with Apple products,services, and least but not last expenses. That is, nothing is shareware! I Hate Apple & QuickTime, too! Sue ME!

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yea the only good thing apple has ever made was the ipod every thing else sucks, microsoft also came out with the zunes thats much better than a ipod

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Steve Jobs you can suck my harry ass ball sack you little man whore

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Steve Jobs lick my sninky ass dooker apple sucks big lathargic penises shove an iPod up your iAss and i hope Bill gates shoves a Zune up your iPisshole you little Homo...Suck it hahaha

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Hey Stevvie i want your bod in my rectal area ohh shove ur iDick up my ass

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I hate quicktime and how it is forced upon me when I download itunes. I also hate how quicktime starts when I turn on my computer, and I have never used quicktime by choice. It has no function that another program cannot perform better. It looks ugly and its face smells. It doesn't really smell, but if it could it would stink. I guess if you can force your software on enough people, that it will eventually get you somewhere.

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The #1 reason i absolutely REFUSE to buy an ipod or or apple computers is the fact that they produce quicktime. By producing one absolutly HORRIBLE program for so long, the seems to only get worse with each edition, makes me lose all trust for anything apple does. Atleast microsoft allows you the choice to use 50 other programs. It provides you with media player by default for convenience, and i love it. I rather get rammed in the ass by bill gates than steve job's massive black quicktime dick ANYDAY. I will never give apple a cent until they eliminate ALL the negative issues with quicktime and apologize for the YEARS of frustration they have caused to millions of people worldwide.

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Quicktime is the most useless piece of shit software I have ever seen, if you happen to "UPGRADE" to a different, decimal point version, you end up paying another 40 bucks for a new license. At least windows is free to upgrade!!!! Also, what is the deal with playing .AVI files with it, it takes a high-def .avi file, and makes it look like it was filmed by a 4 year old with a web cam. Lastly, and this is for anyone who does major movie editing with AVID Studio Express Pro, or Adobe Premiere Pro (any version), or any other Non-Linear Editing Software. It requires you to have the latest version of Quicktime, and then it takes FOREVER for it to export, and when it is done, it is either the wrong file type, size, or it looks like plain old S#&%!!!!

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"We at Apple spend considerable efforts to ensure that the software we engineer provides the best user experience that we can possibly deliver."

@your engineers:

SMIL - fail@hardward abstraction, l2deinstantiate your fricken memory, l2 cross project unit test. SOME hardware will deconstruct it's memory through the HAL, others wont... perhaps spending more than 10 minutes to comprehende the HAL library (i.e. openGL, DirectX) will prove to mean your software is actually working. Better still, get some software engineers who actually code, or alternatively, should finance be the problem, get some management who don't want to run their tongues over the pretty boxes and actually want to invest in sound product performance. Somewhere you are just plain failing.

SOCKETS - fail@application layer problem mitigation. IF I GET ANOTHER "INVALID URL" from basic TCP transport problems i'm going to scream.


better still.... i might just go with flash.

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I have a macbook, and my only complaint is that QT is the ugliest, slowest piece of shit that never has every codec and always wants to be upgraded... but still, i just use VLC and its all good, so what are you guys whining about? Just find another player.
Its way less annoying than vista.

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Why on earth do we have to pay to get full screen with QuickTime? I dont know a single other media player that forces you to pay to get a simple function like full screen! And as for QTTask.exe.... arrrgghh! It deserves a place in hell right next to RealPlayer!

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I think the reason Quicktime is so great is because you can play .MOV files with it. Those files are great and waaaaay better than MPEG or AVI. Why even have other formats. MOV all the way!!!!

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I have to agree 100% with dude. The Quicktime® .MOV format is not only an industry standard but it also represents Apple's® commitment to excellence and quality which Apple® customers expect.

Without the Quicktime® .MOV format then many of the latest innovations in the internet media would simply not be possible. Without Apple's® continuous push for innovation and user-friendly interfaces then services such as YouTube® and streaming multi-media would simply not exist. If it weren't for Apple's® Quicktime® format even the latest DVD and Blueray® discs would not be possible. As a matter of fact, with Apple's® Quicktime® there would be no T.V. at all.

The facts speak for themselves and without Apple's® Quicktime® the internet would not be what it is today.

-Apple Team Specialist
www.apple.com

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Get quicktime to work with windows xp and I might like it!! So far it has removed other codecs for other players when I remove it!! Always have a problem with quicktime update!! 3rd time I've installed with this problem (Different Versions).
Caused tons of registry problems!! When I remove Quicktime! In Fact Why is it called Quicktime? everytime I try this program and I have to It is required for some games or apps to function! I get sooo frustrated!! Apple You Suck Big Time!!!

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i dont really have a huge grudge against quicktime (ok maybe i do) i just hate how you have to pay to get freakin full screen!!!!!! i mean really, i don't enjoy spending 30 bucks to watch something in full screen.

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I was doing my multimedia application in the class the other day, and I had to put a video in it, the only format I could find on the computer that day was an only readed by Quick sucker Time format, I had no preoblem linking to it in the application, I didn't had time to lunch it as the professor told us we ran out of time, the application was beautiful as my camarads said, but I had 8/20, and guess why, It was that F**king Quik big F**k Time the reason, It took forever to load and it was a pain in the ass, so thanks apple for screwing my day and week, and I hope you never make software again, and let those who know how to do it better do there work

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Why Do They call it quicktime, When it's sooooo! SLOOOW!!!!

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Only fags use quicktime

# PHUCK quicktime

This is the most worthless, other player hijacking crap of all time. I'm absolutely sure it is inhibiting sales from your other brands as well, "Steve" - I Tunes specifically- Why don't you make it a better product if you are going to ramrod our players with it? What the HELL is with that ridiculous player size anyways? I didn't buy a 20" monitor so I can look at your penny pinched 3" screen. I install quicktime for about 5 minutes just to hear the itunes songs I've downloaded, then I delete it. I don't even want to use itunes anymore because of your stupid quicktime player. Seriously, don't you get it? People do NOT like quicktime. Change it, chuck it, do something. Consider this your free marketing consumer response opinion.

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Quick time is the worst media player around & the fact that we are forced to install it with Itunes & other programmes is just so annoying. It then forces you to reboot you computer.

Apple. I did not ask for Quicktime & certainly had no reason to reboot my machine. I really hate the way you do business. Itunes is also terrible but again, if you own an ipod this software is forced upon you by apple,

Now they are restricting people from plugging their ipods into any machine other than the one it was origionally syncronized with. Stop trying to control peoples lives with your shit, intrusive software. Stick the hardware and OS/X and leave PC users alone.

Microsoft offers a choice as they know how to make software and are confident that people will choose their software above other alturnatives. Apple are aware that nobody in their right mind would choose Quicktime or Itunes given the choice so they force it upon us.

Stop it before it drives us all mad.

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I myself am a Apple Fan. I like their design and their OS X.

But from a high class company like Apple, I DO NOT UNDERSTAND two shitty software that they released and they keep pushing updates to my computer.

1- QuickTime
2- iTune

God damn it Apple,
Why are you pushing these two junk software to us, I don't get it.

Can't you really make something that actually is NICE and WORKS.

I am not a Microsoft Fan either, I hate Steve Balmer and never liked Bill Gates, but honestly they know software better than Apple. Apple is just a pretty box as far as I am concern.

Everytime I connect my iPhone to my iTune I am like.... WHY WHY WHY??!!!

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I hate quicktime so bad .....now even Yahoo puts their hd trailers in their qt formats

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QuickTime is maybe not as bad as people think. The main reason people don't like it is because if you're used to WMV, when you switch over to QT you can't find anything. But actually, all the same functions are there - and when you figure out how it works, you end up with a better interface than WMV.

but, coming from me Steve, that was some pansy ass political BS you came out with up above: "it may appear intrusive... but this is because of the incredibly positive profile Apple has achieved with its customers"??!? how does an incredibly positive profile result in your customers thinking your software sucks?

you're a good spin doctor steve, when you get over to this side i'll surely put you on my PR team.

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You have to pay extra to watch videos in full screen. Are you fucking kidding me apple?? Are you aware that there are hundreds of free players that play QT movies full screen along with countless other formats? It's time to scrap QuickTime for good. It's outdated.

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If given the choice of using Quicktime as a media app or a cavity search from a wart-knuckled Federale, I'd bribe him to use a sandpaper mitten rather than EVER have quicktime FUBAR my PC ever again...come to think of it, its not really much of a comparison really...sorta like apples & apples...

as for I-tunes...one would have to be an I-diot to think that there is ANYTHING redeeming in that cancerous creeping kudzu of crap.

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well i have a mac but flash qt still jerks me around, to sync my iphone i have to have the new itunes to get the new itunes i have to get the new quicktime. and everytime i download it it shuts down unexpectedly. any ideas why?

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It's too bad most of the folks posting to this missed the hilarious sarcasm in the well worded comment by the person pretending to be Steve Jobs. Nice bit of work there Pseudo Steve.

I also hate the freakin software, which is what led me to Google "I hate Quicktime" and get a link to this thread...

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I will never NEVER used anything Apple makes,
because every time I use their product - I realize I was fooled!
People do not use quicktime by Apple..it sucks!

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Cyberlink PowerDirector installed this piece of garbage along with itself. QT never worked right, it wouldn't update itself (buffer overflow error) and was integrated into what seemed like a thousand registry keys. It took 20 minutes to remove all the references with regedit.

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I'm comforted to read these posts. I "had" to install quick??time because unfortunately it's my dig. camera's movie format. I "quickly" hated the program as it overrided my other media default apps - Luckily, I was able to deselect qiktime from Firefox options to open media - and so QT now opens only qt movies. I have some visual impairment, and for me, qtime screen is cr*p compared to w. media. As soon as I'm able to, I'll get another digital camera and will make sure Quiktime is not its movie format...

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Just spent ages trying to stop quicktime from auto playing a mp3 file through a website when I wanted to save it (no I'm not gonna pay $30 fucking dollars) and realized I could just disable the plugin through Firefox ><. Only reason I have it is for itunes a pron.

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Quicktime should be renamed to QuitTime. This and iTunes softwares are memory hoggers - I hate both of them. Uninstall iTunes and use MediaMonkey instead.

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"I also hate the freakin software, which is what led me to Google "I hate Quicktime" and get a link to this thread..."

I did the exact same thing.

My playlists are months old because I've been putting off booting up my old laptop to change things. You see, it's a sacrificial laptop. Until I buy a new player [which will NOT be a feggin ipod] I keep quicktime, itunes, and all their assorted memory resident bullshit and massively lengthy 'updates' on my poor old toshiba.

I hate quicktime so goddam bad. That one piece of software will keep me from buying apple again. It betrays they type of 'convenience control' that everyone used to give microsoft shit about. But it's worse than any software that has come before or since, IME.

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Maybe I am doing something wrong, but whenever I install Quicktime, afterwards I cannot play mpg files with Media Player by clicking a link in Internet Explorer. IE will just show an empty page and an error message in the status line. After uninstalling Quicktime, the problem is gone.

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QuickTime sucks eggs! I had to wait 5 minutes to access a QuickTime movie so I could rename it! I uninstalled it and used a basic alternate player. And now there's no wait!

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QuickTime is the worst shitware ever made. Every time I found a piece of it on my computer I want to kill Steve Jobs twice more than Bill Gates. It sucks to death.

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Apple has a lot of nice things but Quicktime is absolutely the single worst application that I have ever had the misfortune of being forced to use. My iTouch is A+, iTunes C+ but forcing iPhone/iTouch users to to use Quicktime F triple minus ....simple torture and ruinous to many other applications (especially games). Please make it go away....Quicktime Alt if you must

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Dear Steve Jobs:
Can you help me?
I have a .MOV file, but I don't like QuickTime. Can you tell to your quicktime team developers, that make a .MOV FREE CODEC, then, we, all users of WMPlayer can install the .MOV codec in windows?
So, we can see the .mov file in all windows program we desire!!!!!!!!
Obviously, those people like quicktime, no problem! They can use normally!
But we, we are obligued to use quick time, and this is the problem: When you have to through, there is hate.
Thank you Steve.

I spend the .mov codec for Windows!

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I agree with Rickyt, and nice sarcasm there, steve jobs

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What's wrong with shitty Apple software?

I love quicktime! <3

Everyone should waste their monies and go PRO!!!!

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Jorge Alosi: Google "quicktime alternative" for non-quicktime app to play mov-format.

quicktime is one of the single worst programs ever made, and always has been. It has always been a crap - it is slow, freezes/crashes, and the mov-format has horrible quality/size ratio? Why do people still use it? Why anybody would even use this format is beyond me, since the entire format sucks as much as the rest of quicktime.

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Ya this is what happens when you type "I hate Quick Time" into Google. I hate this useless, slow and prehistoric software.

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Apple you suck. Microsoft you suck. Lets all donate to Google build these worthless dumb fucks out of business.

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suck,it's broke my laptop down many time!

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If I could grab Steve Nutjob but his nuts, cut his throat, then smash his head against a Mac G5 enough times to see his brains leak out, I certainly would. I'm so mad at this moment that I'm pretty sure I really would cause a massacre if I see him, or any other Mac faggot for that matter.

I don't know why the fuck Microsoft hasn't made a .mov extension support yet. This made me yet again install quicktime (should've been appropriately named waitingtime...or in my case, CRASHTIME). Now each time I want to download an MP3, mov, or any media file from the internet, instead of downloading it, it tries to open it with quicktime, then the whole damn thing crashes.

A company that can't make an application as simple as a MEDIA PLAYER work is not worth two shits, and is definitely not worth buying anything from.

NEVER, EVER, WASTE YOUR MONEY ON A MAC. PERIOD.

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quicktime sucks. So does QT pro.

# re: People hate quicktime cause its a PIECE OF SHIT MONEY HUNGRY PROGRAM!

Ive experienced the crap that is called quicktime since the days of apple IIsi's and i must say it hasnt changed a bit. Resource hogging and way too slow. And now facebook keeps haunting me saying i have to install the bloody plugin! FUCK THAT.

TO THE DEVELOPERS OF QUICKTIME....eat my choad.

One would think that a huge company thats trying to get a better foothold in the pc world would try to give you software that is clean and simple to use and listen to the complaints and do something about it. Its like the Quicktime developers think we will just agree to any bullshit they dish out. The "pay for full screen" thing is an absolute moneyhungry joke. When i have to, i use a cracked pro quicktime because NOBODY should pay for full screen capabilities when you are forced to use their software. Then i discovered an alternate to quicktime without the bullshit and plays in vlc and media player and classic.

So for all out there that needs a QT alternative download the latest K-lite MEGA codec pack from

http://www.codecguide.com/
(plays REAL MEDIA, QUICKTIME and other bullshit no strings and installs all the codecs u could dream of and doesnt burden u with bad software. Infact I use MEDIA PLAYER CLASSIC for everything and it works brilliantly. Its simple and to the point. VLC is awesome too)

Only download the KLITE pack from there as it has no spyware or adware or whatever. AND U CAN USE FULLSCREEN and it uses less resources.

So whoever reads this give it a go. I also typed in "quicktime sucks balls" and came to this site. Google is gettin bad now too with 50 million programs at startup.....Actually ADOBE,QUICKTIME,GOOGLEUPDATER,INCD,NEROCHECK etc....I fix pc's for a livin and im forever disabling those programs. how do you know what they are relaying to their servers???