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

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

The US tech large said its iconic music participant has been replaced by different devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have built-in an incredible music experience across 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 isn't any higher way to get pleasure from, discover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original iPod and it was the primary MP3 player that might 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 permits you to put your complete music collection in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he mentioned on the time.

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

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

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent times, with cell phone expertise enabling clients to listen to music services on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one model still on sale at present.

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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