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

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

The US tech giant mentioned its iconic music participant has been replaced by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an unbelievable music experience 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 not any better way to get pleasure from, uncover, and expertise music."

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

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

"With iPod, listening to music won't ever be the identical again."

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

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent years, with cell phone expertise enabling customers to hearken to music services on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only model still on sale immediately.

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

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