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

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

The US tech big said its iconic music player has been replaced by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have built-in an incredible music expertise throughout all of our products, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch to HomePod mini, and throughout Mac, iPad, and Apple TV.

"And Apple Music delivers industry-leading sound high quality with assist for spatial audio - there is not any higher method to get pleasure from, discover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented an entire new class of digital music participant that lets you put your total music collection in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he said at the time.

"With iPod, listening to music will never be the same again."

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

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

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

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the one mannequin nonetheless on sale right now.

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

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