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 large said its iconic music participant has been changed by different units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated 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 quality with assist for spatial audio - there's no better approach to enjoy, discover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new class of digital music participant that allows you to put your whole music assortment in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he said on the time.

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

Comparable MP3 gamers released by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the same success as the iPod.

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent times, with mobile phone expertise enabling customers to listen to music providers on their telephones.

In 2014, the classic click wheel mannequin 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 at present.

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

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