Apple discontinues iPod, 20 years after it was launched | Science & Tech Information

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

The US tech giant said its iconic music participant has been replaced by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.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, stated: "In the present day, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We've built-in an unbelievable music expertise throughout 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 way to enjoy, discover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole 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 mentioned on the time.

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

Similar MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success because the iPod.

Apple has launched five versions of its music player - the Classic, Contact, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with mobile phone expertise enabling prospects to listen to music services on their phones.

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

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

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

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