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The US tech big mentioned its iconic music participant has been replaced by different units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have integrated an unbelievable 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 quality with assist for spatial audio - there is no higher method to take pleasure in, discover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented an entire new category of digital music participant that permits you to put your entire music collection in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he stated on the time.

"With iPod, listening to music will never be the identical again."

Related MP3 players launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the identical success because the iPod.

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent times, with mobile phone technology enabling clients to listen to music companies on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one mannequin nonetheless on sale right now.

With out the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, in response to its inventor Tony Fadell.

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