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

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

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

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

"We have integrated an unbelievable music expertise 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 is not any better solution to get pleasure from, uncover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new category of digital music player that lets you put your complete music assortment in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he mentioned on the time.

"With iPod, listening to music won't ever be the same once more."

Comparable MP3 players launched by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the identical success because the iPod.

Apple has released 5 versions of its music player - the Classic, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent times, with mobile phone technology enabling customers to take heed to music companies on their telephones.

In 2014, the classic click wheel mannequin was discontinued, and the Shuffle and Nano were killed off three years later.

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only mannequin still on sale right this moment.

Without the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, in line with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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