Quicktime 7.3 Vanishes from Apple’s Site
Nathan Beaman
Im Starting off the new year with a wipe and fresh install on my laptop, to ensure stability on a coming trip to LA for a month. I’ve been slowly plugging away at reinstalling some of my staple apps and ignoring a few that i never seem to use. I was hoping to install Quicktime 7.3 rather than 7.3.1 for a couple of reasons - One being that I want to retain the flash support of 7.3 that has been removed in the upgrade and another reason is that I’ve had a ton of issues with compressor and motion related to 7.3.1. I dug around for a while yesterday and most of the morning have been unable to track down just the 7.3 install.
It no longer exists on Apple’s support site. Mention of it is still there, but when you click anything that has to do with version 7.3 you get the quirky apple page not found error. All the older versions of Quicktime are still live, like the far more stable 7.2 link below the broken 7.3 links.
I have a feeling that this is no mistake. I’m guessing that it has something to do with the lack of flash support in 7.3.1 as well. Im thinking that Apple’s flash licensing has expired and that Adobe is playing hardball, so they’ve been forced to pull the older version all together. If this is the case, it doesn’t bode well for flash support in iphones any time soon. Just my guess, anyone got any better theories?
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