Jobs used the iPod touch to introduce it: the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. The iPod touch also included the YouTube client from the iPhone, as well as Calendar, Contacts, Clock and Calculator. The distinction is minor, but really dates the presentation. The language here is “built-in,” reflecting the truth that Safari wasn’t so much an app on the iPod, as it was part of the iPod’s firmware. This was before the days of apps being discrete things. After disclosing that the iPod touch’s chrome back included a small black Wi-Fi antenna window in the upper corner, he showed off Safari on the device. He lingered in the Music app, praising the design and Cover Flow. Jobs turned to the iPod touch’s software. To my eye, it has helped this product age more gracefully than the original iPhone. Around front, the touch used a matte black chamfer around the edges of the device, as opposed to the chrome ring found on the iPhone. There were some other physical differences as well. Without all the electronics required to be a phone, the iPod touch was just 8 mm thick, compared to the 11.6 of the original iPhone. The front shared the same 3.5-inch screen set above the Home button. Side by side with an iPhone, the family resemblance is strong. It shipped internationally before the iPhone did many people first interacted with iPhone OS via the iPod touch, not the iPhone. In doing so, Apple was able to introduce more people to iPhone OS and its revolutionary user interface. Today, a decade into the iPhone, it’s a little wild to think that people were clamoring for technology to be stripped from the iPhone and applied to the iPod line, but it’s true. He said people had been asking when that technology would be brought to the iPod line, then answered it, pulling an iPod touch out of his pocket. “It’s incredible with it’s Multi-Touch user interface, its incredible album artwork and video, it is the best iPod ever.” “iPhone owners agree with us,” he exclaimed.
In January of that year, in his famous iPhone keynote, he called the new device “the best iPod ever.” Jobs opened his pitch by quoting himself.
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