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 stated its iconic music player has been changed by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have integrated an unimaginable music experience throughout all of our merchandise, 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 help for spatial audio - there is no better solution to enjoy, uncover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented an entire new category of digital music player that permits you to put your total music assortment in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he said on the time.

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

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

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with mobile phone technology enabling customers to listen to music providers on their phones.

In 2014, the basic click wheel mannequin was discontinued, and the Shuffle and Nano were killed off three years later.

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

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

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