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

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

The US tech big mentioned its iconic music player has been changed by different devices, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising, stated: "As we speak, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We've built-in 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 quality with help for spatial audio - there isn't any better method to enjoy, uncover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented an entire new category of digital music participant that lets you put your entire music collection in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he mentioned at the time.

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

Comparable MP3 gamers released by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the identical success as the iPod.

Apple has launched 5 versions of its music participant - the Traditional, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The company has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent times, with mobile phone expertise enabling prospects to hearken to music providers on their phones.

In 2014, the traditional click on wheel model was discontinued, and the Shuffle and Nano were killed off three years later.

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one model still on sale at this time.

Without the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, in keeping with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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