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The US tech giant stated its iconic music participant has been replaced by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an unbelievable music experience throughout 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 not any higher strategy to enjoy, discover, and expertise music."

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

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

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

Similar MP3 gamers launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success as the iPod.

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with mobile phone technology enabling clients to take heed to music companies on their phones.

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 model nonetheless on sale at this time.

Without the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, according to its inventor Tony Fadell.

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