Lesson plan
Front Row (software)
Front Row is a discontinued media center application by Apple for Macintosh computers and Apple TV for navigating and viewing video, photos, podcasts and music from a computer, optical disc or the Internet through a 10-foot user interface (similar to Kodi and Windows Media Center). The software relies on iTunes and iPhoto and is controlled by an Apple Remote or the keyboard function keys. The first version was released in October 2005 for Mac OS X 10.4, with two major revisions since. Front Row was removed and discontinued in Mac OS X 10.7.
Article summary
Front Row is a discontinued media center application by Apple for Macintosh computers and Apple TV for navigating and viewing video, photos, podcasts and music from a computer, optical disc or the Internet through a 10-foot user interface (similar to Kodi and Windows Media Center). The software relies on iTunes and iPhoto and is controlled by an Apple Remote or the keyboard function keys. The first version was released in October 2005 for Mac OS X 10.4, with two major revisions since. Front Row was removed and discontinued in Mac OS X 10.7.
Key claims
- release date: 2005 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
- release date: 2007 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- The record states that the release date is "2005". What evidence would count against this claim?
- The record states that the release date is "2007". What evidence would count against this claim?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
Bibliography
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378318420
Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.