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The US tech giant stated its iconic music player has been replaced by different devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have integrated 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 quality with assist for spatial audio - there isn't any better technique to enjoy, uncover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new category of digital music participant that lets you put your whole music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he mentioned at the time.

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

Similar MP3 gamers released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the identical success because the iPod.

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

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

In 2014, the basic 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 model nonetheless on sale as we speak.

Without the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, in response to its inventor Tony Fadell.

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