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In-Ear Headphones, iPod Classic (6th gen), iPod Nano (4th gen) and iPod Touch (2nd generation)

Apple announced four products on 9 September 2008: In-Ear Headphones, iPod Classic (6th gen), iPod Nano (4th gen) and iPod Touch (2nd generation). The day spanned AirPods and iPod.

It was the 10th of 11 dated moments the archive holds for 2008, 60 days after the previous one, 11 July 2008.

In-Ear Headphones product photograph

Juanibb · CC BY-SA 3.0

What Apple announced

In-Ear Headphones

AirPods · Headphones · discontinued 2018

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.

iPod Classic (6th gen)

iPod · iPod Classic · discontinued 9 September 2009

The iPod Classic (stylized and marketed as iPod classic and originally simply iPod) is a discontinued portable media player created and formerly marketed by Apple.

There were six generations of the iPod Classic, as well as a spin-off (the iPod Photo) that was later re-integrated into the main iPod line. All generations used a 1.8-inch (46 mm) hard drive for storage. The "classic" suffix was formally introduced with the rollout of the sixth-generation iPod on September 5, 2007. Prior generations of the device had simply been marketed as the "iPod". It was available in silver or black from 2007 onwards, replacing the "signature iPod white".

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iPod Nano (4th gen)

iPod · iPod Nano · discontinued 9 September 2009

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

In-Ear Headphones product photograph
In-Ear Headphones

Juanibb · CC BY-SA 3.0

iPod Classic (6th gen) product photograph
iPod Classic (6th gen)

es:Usuario:House · CC BY-SA 3.0

iPod Nano (4th gen) product photograph
iPod Nano (4th gen)

Domaina · CC BY-SA 3.0

iPod Touch (2nd generation) product photograph
iPod Touch (2nd generation)

Kyro · CC BY 3.0

Also in 2008

Sources

  1. In-Ear Headphones · Wikipedia
  2. iPod Classic (6th gen) · Wikipedia
  3. iPod Nano (4th gen) · Wikipedia
  4. iPod Touch (2nd generation) · Wikipedia

Dates on this page are announcement dates, not shipping dates. 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.