{"id":2808,"date":"2015-11-01T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T18:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2015-11-01T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T18:51:57","slug":"these-apple-products-will-be-considered-obsolete-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=2808","title":{"rendered":"These Apple products will be considered \u2018obsolete\u2019 in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has published a list of products that will be considered \u201cobsolete\u201d this December. The list includes Macs, the first-generation iPod touch, and a number of Beats devices, which will no longer be eligible for service or repair through Apple support.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn December 8, 2015, the products listed below will be classified as either vintage or obsolete in Asia-Pacific, Canada, Europe, Japan, Latin America, the United States, and Apple Retail Stores,\u201d explains Apple\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of products that will become obsolete includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">iMac (27-inch, Late 2009)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">MacBook Air (Mid 2009)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">Mac Pro (Early 2009)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">MacBook (13-inch, Early 2008)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2009)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Apple Cinema Display (23-inch, DVI Early 2007)<\/li>\n<li>Time Capsule 802.11n (1st Generation)<\/li>\n<li>iPod touch (1st generation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of these products will be considered \u201cvintage\u201d rather than obsolete in California and Turkey, where Apple is required to continue offering some support in certain cases.<\/p>\n<p>There is also\u00a0a number of aging Beats products on Apple\u2019s list, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iBeats<\/li>\n<li>Beatbox<\/li>\n<li>Beatbox Portable (1st generation)<\/li>\n<li>Wireless (1st generation)<\/li>\n<li>Diddybeats<\/li>\n<li>Heartbeats (1st generation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After December 8, none of these products will be eligible for support from Apple, or Apple authorized\u00a0resellers. If you own one of these and it develops technical problems, then, you\u2019ll have to fix it yourself or find a third-party repairer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"infinite-scroll-metadata\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">VIA<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2015\/10\/30\/mac-ipod-beats-obsolete-vintage-status-repairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9TO5MAC<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has published a list of products that will be considered \u201cobsolete\u201d this December. The list includes Macs, the first-generation iPod touch, and a number of Beats devices, which will no longer be eligible for service or repair through Apple support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computers","category-mobile","tag-apple","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}