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===1998===
At the 1998 [[Apple Worldwide Developers Conference]] (WWDC) keynote, Jobs announced that the company was back on track. He reviewed Apple's [[inventory turnover]] rate, describing changes in its distribution system and apple.com, its online store. Jobs said that Apple had sold 500,000 [[Power Macintosh G3]] in its first six months, described the [[PowerBook G3]] and showed the "Steamroller" commercial. He claimed that there were 10 million Apple computers in consumer use and six million educational users, and discussed the [[iMac]] and [[QuickTime]]; Jobs said that the [[International Organization for Standardization]] adopted the QuickTime file format as the basis for [[MPEG 4]]. Jobs said that Apple would add Internet "live" streaming ([[Real-time Transport Protocol]]) to QuickTime 3.0 for its release in fall 1998 and introduced Peter Hoddie, chief architect of QuickTime. Jobs described three improvements Apple wanted to make to [[Java (programming language)|Java]]: unify the [[Java virtual machine]], make it compatible and make it fast. He announced Apple's strategy for [[macOS|Mac OS X]], saying that the 6,000-plus good [[application programming interface]]s (APIs) would be called [[Carbon (API)]], introducing [[Avadis Tevanian]] to demonstrate Carbon. Tevanian introduced Ben Waldman (general manager of the Macintosh unit at [[Microsoft]]), Norm Meyrowitz (president of Macromedia Products) and Greg Gilley (vice-president for graphics applications development at [[Adobe Systems]]), who demonstrated [[Photoshop]]. Jobs announced that the Mac OS 8 Codename Sonata would be released in the third quarter of 1999; [[Rhapsody (operating system)|Rhapsody]] 1.0 would be released in the third quarter of 1998.