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

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

The US tech big mentioned its iconic music player has been replaced by other devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated an incredible music expertise 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 help for spatial audio - there isn't any higher way 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 complete new class of digital music participant that lets you put your whole music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he mentioned at the time.

"With iPod, listening to music won't ever be the same again."

Comparable MP3 players launched by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the identical success because the iPod.

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

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

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the only model nonetheless on sale today.

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

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