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

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

The US tech big mentioned its iconic music player has been changed by different units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated an incredible music expertise 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 support for spatial audio - there isn't any better solution to get pleasure from, discover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new class of digital music player that permits you to put your whole 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 once more."

Related MP3 gamers launched by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the identical success because the iPod.

Apple has released five variations of its music player - the Traditional, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent times, with cell phone expertise enabling customers to take heed to music providers on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only model nonetheless on sale today.

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

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