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 giant mentioned its iconic music player has been changed by other units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated an incredible music experience across all of our products, 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 assist for spatial audio - there is no higher strategy to get pleasure from, uncover, and experience music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique iPod and it was the first MP3 player that would 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 entire music assortment in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he said at the time.

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

Comparable MP3 players launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success because the iPod.

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

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

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only mannequin nonetheless on sale at this time.

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

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