| madskillz said:
The Apple Pippin was a multimedia platform marketed by Apple Inc. (then Apple Computer Inc.) in the mid 1990s. It was based around a 66-MHz PowerPC 603 processor, a 14.4 kbit/s modem and ran a stripped version of the System 7.5.2. The goal was to create an inexpensive computer aimed mostly at playing CD-based multimedia titles, especially games, but also functioning as a network computer. It featured a 4× CD-ROM drive and a video output that could connect to a standard television monitor. The platform was named for the Newtown Pippin, an apple cultivar, related to the McIntosh apple (which Apple had to spell Macintosh in order to avoid infringement). |
Don't even TRY to pull that. Totally, 100% different situations. Apple was in serious trouble back then, in a market already dominated by Sony/Nintendo.
Different audiences, different way of entering the market, different competition, different... everything.
A comparison between the Pippen and the iPhone is totally irrelevant.
