Apple discontinues iPod, 20 years after it was released | Science & Tech News

Apple has discontinued the iPod, 20 years after it was launched.

The US tech giant stated its iconic music participant has been changed by different units, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising and marketing, said: "At the moment, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We've integrated an incredible music experience across all of our products, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch to HomePod mini, and across Mac, iPad, and Apple TV.

"And Apple Music delivers industry-leading sound high quality with assist for spatial audio - there is no higher way to enjoy, discover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique iPod and it was the first MP3 player that could maintain 1,000 songs and had a 10-hour battery life.

"With iPod, Apple has invented an entire new category of digital music player that permits you to put your total music assortment in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he mentioned at the time.

"With iPod, listening to music will never be the same again."

Comparable MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success because the iPod.

Apple has launched five versions of its music participant - the Traditional, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent times, with mobile phone know-how enabling clients to take heed to music providers on their phones.

In 2014, the traditional click on wheel mannequin was discontinued, and the Shuffle and Nano had been killed off three years later.

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only mannequin still on sale as we speak.

With out the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, in line with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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