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 stated its iconic music player has been changed by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an unbelievable music experience across all of our merchandise, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch to HomePod mini, and throughout Mac, iPad, and Apple TV.

"And Apple Music delivers industry-leading sound quality with assist for spatial audio - there's no better strategy to take pleasure in, discover, and experience music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original iPod and it was the first 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 player that permits you to put your complete music assortment in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he mentioned at the time.

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

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

Apple has launched 5 variations of its music participant - the Classic, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent times, with mobile phone technology enabling clients to hearken to music services on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one mannequin still on sale at the moment.

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

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