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The US tech big mentioned its iconic music player has been replaced by different units, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, mentioned: "Today, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We've built-in an unimaginable music experience across all of our products, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch to HomePod mini, and throughout Mac, iPad, and Apple TV.

"And Apple Music delivers industry-leading sound quality with assist for spatial audio - there's no higher solution to get pleasure from, uncover, and experience music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique iPod and it was the first MP3 player that might hold 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 on the time.

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

Comparable MP3 gamers released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success as the iPod.

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

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

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

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

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

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