· Release

Pippin

Apple released one product on 1 December 1994: Pippin.

It was the 9th of 9 dated moments the archive holds for 1994, 28 days after the previous one, 3 November 1994.

Pippin product photograph

Groink · Public domain

What Apple released

Pippin

Other · discontinued 1 December 1997

The Pippin (Japanese: ピピンアットマーク; stylized as PiPP!N) is a defunct open multimedia technology platform, designed by Apple Computer. According to Apple, Pippin was directed at the home market as "an integral part of the consumer audiovisual, stereo, and television environment".

Pippin is based on the Macintosh platform, including the classic Mac OS architecture. Apple built a demonstration device based on Pippin called Pippin Power Player and used it to demonstrate the platform at trade shows and to the media, to attract potential software developers and hardware manufacturers. Apple licensed the Pippin technology to third-party companies. Bandai Company Ltd. developed the ATMARK and @WORLD models, and focused them on the gaming and entertainment business in Japan, Canada and the United States. Katz Media developed the KMP 2000, and focused it on vertical markets throughout Europe and Canada.

Also in 1994

Sources

  1. Pippin · Wikipedia

Dates are first days on sale unless a product page says otherwise; where an earlier announcement date is known, the product page gives both. Product summaries are drawn from the linked articles, and specification claims in them are the publisher’s, not independent testing. Photograph credits and licences are listed in full on the image credits page.