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

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

The US tech giant said its iconic music participant has been changed by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have built-in an unbelievable music expertise across 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 high quality with assist for spatial audio - there is no better strategy 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 would maintain 1,000 songs and had a 10-hour battery life.

"With iPod, Apple has invented a complete new class of digital music player that permits you to put your complete music collection in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he stated at the time.

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

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

Apple has released five versions of its music player - the Classic, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The company has been slowly killing its iPod vary lately, with cell phone technology enabling customers to take heed to music providers on their phones.

In 2014, the classic 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 right this moment.

With out the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, in line with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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