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 large said its iconic music participant has been changed by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an unbelievable 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 support for spatial audio - there is no higher technique to enjoy, discover, and expertise music."

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

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

"With iPod, listening to music won't ever be the identical once more."

Similar MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the identical success as the iPod.

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with cell phone expertise enabling clients to hearken to music services on their phones.

In 2014, the basic click 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 today.

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

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