Apple in the living room
aj
December 17, 2009
Other Apple Hardware
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Tags: Apple TV, Atari Lynx, Bandai Pippin, Macintosh TV, media device, Sega Saturn
Apple TV. Image credit: Apple
Apple launched Apple TV, it’s small box-like media device in January of 2007. It features the ability to play media back on an HD television and access shared music and video libraries stored on a networked Mac.
But Apple TV wasn’t the first device with which the Cupertino-based company tried to work its way into the living rooms of its customers.
Which of the following devices did Apple release in partnership with another company in 1995 for playing CD-based multimedia titles while connected to a TV?
aj said:
Dec 18, 09 at 2:20 pmApple released the Pippin in conjunction with Bandai, Japan’s largest toy maker at the time. The Pippin was essentially an inexpensive Mac, consisting of a 66-MHz PowerPC 603 processor, a 14.4 modem, running a stripped-down version of Mac OS System 7.5.2. It also contained a CD-ROM drive. Users interacted with the Pippin via a game controller called the “AppleJack”.