· Release

iPod In-Ear Headphones and Xserve Cluster Node G5

Apple released two products on 6 January 2004: iPod In-Ear Headphones and Xserve Cluster Node G5. The day spanned AirPods and Mac.

It was the 1st of 9 dated moments the archive holds for 2004, 49 days after the previous one, 18 November 2003.

iPod In-Ear Headphones product photograph

Juanibb · CC BY-SA 3.0

What Apple released

iPod In-Ear Headphones

AirPods · Headphones · discontinued 25 June 2009

Apple Inc. has produced and sold headphones since 2001, available for standalone purchase and bundled with iPhone (until 2020) and iPod (until 2022) products. Apple's current product line consists of EarPods (wired earbuds available with a 3.5mm headphone, Lightning connector, and USB-C), AirPods and AirPods Pro (wireless Bluetooth earbuds), and AirPods Max (wireless Bluetooth over-ear headphones). The idea for modern Apple headphones, specifically the AirPods, came from a team led by Bart André, Jonathan Ive, and Richard Howarth, under the vision of Steve Jobs.

Xserve Cluster Node G5

Mac · Xserve · discontinued 7 August 2006

The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.

iPod In-Ear Headphones product photograph
iPod In-Ear Headphones

Juanibb · CC BY-SA 3.0

Xserve Cluster Node G5 product photograph
Xserve Cluster Node G5

Public domain

Also in 2004

Sources

  1. iPod In-Ear Headphones · Wikipedia
  2. Xserve Cluster Node G5 · 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.