John Buck on the Invention of QuickTime

John Buck at The Verge (gift link), excerpted from his great book, Inventing the Future: Steve Perlman: Almost everyone at Apple, and definitely everywhere else, assumed that multimedia would always require specialized hardware — and be expensive. A few of us thought otherwise. One of the few was Gavin Miller, a research scientist in Apple’s Graphics Group, who worked with Hoffert to crack the problem of software compression and decompression, otherwise known as codec. Gavin Miller, resear...