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The US tech large mentioned its iconic music player has been replaced by different devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an unimaginable music experience throughout 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 assist for spatial audio - there is no higher technique to take pleasure in, uncover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new class of digital music participant that allows 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 same again."

Related MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success as the iPod.

Apple has launched five versions of its music participant - the Basic, Contact, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary lately, with mobile phone know-how enabling prospects to listen to music providers on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact 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 accordance with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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