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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple will no longer fix Quicktime security bugs (only solution is   to uninstall)
Date: 16 Apr 2016 16:26:55 GMT
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On 2016-04-16, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:
>
> I actually installed it in a VM and tested it, and it starts up just
> fine with no QuickTime present. So the unbundling happened a bit more
> than a year ago, and only now is a third party sticking a fork in
> QuickTime, making this topic a more popular one. My guess is, they
> knew they weren't going to support security updates for QuickTime any
> longer, a year ago, and quietly unbundled it.

QuickTime has been deprecated for many years and developers have
long been asked to use a newer API called AVFoundation instead.

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