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

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

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

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising, mentioned: "Right now, 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 quality with help for spatial audio - there isn't any higher technique to get pleasure from, uncover, and experience 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 an entire new category of digital music participant that allows you to put your complete music assortment in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he stated on the time.

"With iPod, listening to music won't ever be the same again."

Related MP3 gamers released by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the same success as the iPod.

Apple has released 5 variations of its music participant - the Basic, Contact, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with cell phone expertise enabling clients to take heed to music companies on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one model still on sale today.

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

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