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

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

The US tech giant mentioned its iconic music participant has been changed by different devices, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, said: "Right this moment, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We have built-in an incredible music experience across 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 support for spatial audio - there is no higher option to take pleasure in, discover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original iPod and it was the first MP3 player 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 permits you to put your entire music assortment in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he said on the time.

"With iPod, listening to music will never be the same once more."

Comparable MP3 gamers launched by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the identical success as the iPod.

Apple has released 5 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 cell phone technology enabling customers to take heed to music services on their phones.

In 2014, the classic 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 this moment.

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

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