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

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

The US tech big stated its iconic music participant has been replaced by different devices, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising and marketing, said: "At present, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We have integrated an unimaginable music expertise throughout all of our merchandise, 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 assist for spatial audio - there is no higher way to enjoy, uncover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original 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 a whole new class of digital music participant that permits you to put your complete music collection in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he stated at the time.

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

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

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent times, with cell phone technology enabling clients to listen to music services on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only mannequin nonetheless on sale as we speak.

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

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