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 said its iconic music player has been changed by other devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have built-in an unimaginable music expertise 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 high quality with support for spatial audio - there's no higher solution to get pleasure from, discover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new class of digital music player that lets you put your complete music assortment in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he stated at the time.

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

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

Apple has launched five variations of its music player - the Traditional, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

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

In 2014, the basic click on wheel model was discontinued, and the Shuffle and Nano have 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 by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, according to its inventor Tony Fadell.

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