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The US tech big said its iconic music participant has been replaced by different units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated an unimaginable 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 help for spatial audio - there is no higher approach to get pleasure from, uncover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented an entire new category of digital music player that allows you to put your total music collection in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he stated on the time.

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

Related MP3 gamers launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success as the iPod.

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod vary lately, with mobile phone expertise enabling customers to take heed to music services on their telephones.

In 2014, the basic 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 still on sale at the moment.

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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