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

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

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

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

"We have integrated an incredible music expertise throughout all of our merchandise, 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 assist for spatial audio - there is no better strategy to take pleasure in, uncover, and experience music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original iPod and it was the primary 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 entire music assortment in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he stated on the time.

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

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

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent times, with mobile phone technology enabling prospects to hearken to music companies on their telephones.

In 2014, the classic click wheel mannequin 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, in response to its inventor Tony Fadell.

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