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

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, said: "In the present day, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We've built-in an unimaginable music expertise 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 high quality with support for spatial audio - there isn't any better approach to take pleasure in, discover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new category of digital music participant that permits you to put your entire music collection in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he said at the time.

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

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

Apple has launched 5 versions of its music participant - the Basic, Contact, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with mobile phone expertise enabling prospects to hearken to music providers on their phones.

In 2014, the basic click wheel model was discontinued, and the Shuffle and Nano were killed off three years later.

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one model nonetheless on sale today.

With out the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, in keeping with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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