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

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

The US tech giant stated its iconic music player has been changed by other units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have built-in an unimaginable music expertise throughout all of our merchandise, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch to HomePod mini, and throughout Mac, iPad, and Apple TV.

"And Apple Music delivers industry-leading sound quality with help for spatial audio - there is not any better strategy to enjoy, uncover, and experience music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original iPod and it was the first MP3 player 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 allows you to put your entire music collection in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he mentioned at the time.

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

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

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with mobile phone know-how enabling prospects to listen to music providers on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the one mannequin nonetheless on sale in the present day.

Without the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, in response to its inventor Tony Fadell.

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