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

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

The US tech big stated its iconic music player has been replaced by different devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an unbelievable music experience throughout 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 quality with support for spatial audio - there is no better solution to take pleasure in, discover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a complete new category of digital music player that allows you to 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 will never be the same once more."

Related MP3 gamers released by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the identical success because the iPod.

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

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

In 2014, the classic 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 only mannequin nonetheless on sale at present.

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

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