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

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

The US tech large stated its iconic music participant has been changed by other units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an unimaginable music expertise across 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 high quality with support for spatial audio - there is not any better way to get pleasure from, discover, and expertise music."

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

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

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

Similar MP3 players launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the identical success as the iPod.

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with cell phone expertise enabling customers to hearken to music companies on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one mannequin nonetheless on sale as we speak.

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

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