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

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

The US tech giant said its iconic music player has been changed by other units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated an incredible music experience 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 isn't any better method to get pleasure from, uncover, and expertise music."

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

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

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

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

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with cell phone technology enabling prospects to listen to music providers on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the one model nonetheless on sale at the moment.

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

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