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 participant has been changed by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have integrated an unimaginable music experience throughout 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 approach to take pleasure in, discover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a complete new class of digital music participant that permits you to put your complete 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 once more."

Similar MP3 gamers released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the identical success as the iPod.

Apple has launched 5 variations of its music player - the Classic, Contact, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The company has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent years, with mobile phone technology enabling prospects to take heed to music services on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only model still on sale as we speak.

With out the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, based on its inventor Tony Fadell.

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