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

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

The US tech big mentioned its iconic music participant has been replaced by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an unimaginable music experience 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 assist for spatial audio - there is not any better option to take pleasure in, uncover, and expertise 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 participant that permits you to put your whole music collection in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he said on the time.

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

Related MP3 players launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success as the iPod.

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with cell phone know-how enabling clients to listen to music providers on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only mannequin still on sale right now.

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

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