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The US tech giant mentioned its iconic music participant has been replaced by different units, making the iPod redundant.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, mentioned: "Immediately, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We've built-in 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 high quality with support for spatial audio - there isn't any better option to get pleasure from, discover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original iPod and it was the first MP3 player that could 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 total music collection in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he mentioned at the time.

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

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

Apple has released five versions of its music player - the Traditional, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent years, with mobile phone expertise enabling prospects to hearken to music companies on their phones.

In 2014, the classic click on wheel model was discontinued, and the Shuffle and Nano had been killed off three years later.

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

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

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