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

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

"We've integrated an incredible music experience 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 quality with support for spatial audio - there is not any better method to enjoy, discover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented an entire new class of digital music participant that lets you put your total music assortment in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he mentioned on the time.

"With iPod, listening to music will never be the identical once more."

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

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

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

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the only mannequin still on sale as we speak.

Without the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, in keeping with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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