12 September 2012 · Release

EarPods with 3.5mm connector and iPod Touch (4th generation)

Apple released two products on 12 September 2012: EarPods with 3.5mm connector and iPod Touch (4th generation). The day spanned AirPods and iPod. One of them was an update to models already on sale.

It was the 3rd of 10 dated moments the archive holds for 2012, 93 days after the previous one, 11 June 2012.

EarPods with 3.5mm connector product photograph

Juanibb · CC BY-SA 3.0

What Apple released

EarPods with 3.5mm connector

AirPods · Headphones · in production

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 Touch (4th generation)

iPod · iPod Touch · discontinued 30 May 2013 · Update · new capacity or price

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

Photographs from this day

iPod Touch (4th generation) product photograph — iPod Touch (4th generation)

Also in 2012

Sources

EarPods with 3.5mm connector · Wikipedia
iPod Touch (4th generation) · 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.