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

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

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

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

"We have integrated 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 high quality with help for spatial audio - there's no better technique to take pleasure in, discover, and experience music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique iPod and it was the first 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 player that permits you to put your total music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he stated at the time.

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

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

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with cell phone know-how enabling clients to hearken to music services on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the one mannequin still on sale at present.

With out the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, in line with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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