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

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

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

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising, stated: "As we speak, the spirit of iPod lives on.

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

"And Apple Music delivers industry-leading sound high quality with help for spatial audio - there is not any better technique to take pleasure in, discover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique iPod and it was the first MP3 player that could 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 assortment 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 as the iPod.

Apple has launched 5 variations of its music participant - the Classic, Contact, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent times, with cell phone expertise enabling prospects to take heed to music companies on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only mannequin still on sale right now.

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

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