Pippin: adapting PC technology for the technophobe

Author

Sirkin, E.R. ; Mehra, V. ; Keshishoglou, E. ; Madar, L. ; Carter, A. ; Knott, W.

Author_Institution

Apple Comput. Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

23-26 Feb. 1997

Firstpage

308

Lastpage

311

Abstract

Pippin represents the first industry attempt to repackage modern personal computer hardware and software in a form that is more acceptable and affordable to a technophobic consumer. Its design goals represented compromises between a mutually competing set of requirements: performance, "ease of use", system software footprint, time-to-market, TV-centric, manufacturing costs, etc. It is the first commercially-deployed appliance to be optimized for the multimedia-rich home and school marketplaces. All technical goals of the program were achieved, resulting in a flexible and simple-to-operate multimedia consumer appliance.

Keywords

Apple computers; human factors; microcomputers; multimedia computing; user interfaces; PC technology; Pippin; TV-centric system; commercially-deployed appliance; design goals; ease of use; home market; manufacturing costs; multimedia consumer appliance; multimedia-rich market; performance; personal computer hardware; personal computer software; school market; system software footprint; technophobic consumers; time-to-market; Computer industry; Costs; Educational institutions; Hardware; Home appliances; Manufacturing industries; Microcomputers; Multimedia systems; System software; Time to market;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon '97. Proceedings, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA, USA

ISSN

1063-6390

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7804-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1997.584740

Filename

584740