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

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

The US tech big mentioned its iconic music participant has been replaced by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an unimaginable music expertise across all of our merchandise, 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 higher technique to enjoy, discover, and experience music."

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

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

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

Similar MP3 gamers launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success as the iPod.

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with cell phone expertise enabling prospects to take heed to music companies on their telephones.

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 touch was the one model still on sale today.

Without the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, based on its inventor Tony Fadell.

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