Apple discontinues iPod, 20 years after it was released | 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 changed by other devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

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

"And Apple Music delivers industry-leading sound high quality with help for spatial audio - there is no higher method to get pleasure from, uncover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a complete new class of digital music participant that lets you put your whole music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he stated on the time.

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

Comparable MP3 gamers launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the identical success because the iPod.

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with mobile phone know-how enabling clients to take heed to music providers 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 nonetheless on sale at the moment.

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

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