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

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

The US tech big said its iconic music participant has been changed by other devices, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising, 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 support for spatial audio - there isn't any better option to take pleasure in, discover, and experience music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original 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 allows you to put your whole music assortment in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he stated on the time.

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

Similar MP3 gamers launched by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the same success because the iPod.

Apple has launched five variations of its music player - the Classic, Contact, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with mobile phone expertise enabling clients to listen to music services on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only model nonetheless on sale at this time.

With out the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, in keeping with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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