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The US tech big mentioned its iconic music participant has been replaced by other devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have built-in an unimaginable music expertise 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 quality with help for spatial audio - there isn't any higher strategy to enjoy, uncover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a complete new category of digital music player that lets you put your total music assortment in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he stated on the time.

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

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

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with cell phone technology enabling prospects to take heed to music companies on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the one model still on sale at the moment.

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

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