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

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

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

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising and marketing, said: "Today, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We have integrated an unimaginable 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 quality with support for spatial audio - there isn't any better strategy to take pleasure in, discover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented an entire new class of digital music player 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 once more."

Related MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the same success as 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 technology enabling customers to hearken to music companies on their phones.

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 contact was the only mannequin still on sale at this time.

Without the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, in accordance with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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