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

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

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

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

"We have 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 is no higher way to take pleasure in, discover, and experience 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 an entire new class of digital music player that permits you to put your whole music assortment in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he stated on the time.

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

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

Apple has launched 5 variations of its music participant - the Basic, Contact, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The company has been slowly killing its iPod vary lately, with mobile phone know-how enabling prospects to take heed to music providers on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the only mannequin nonetheless on sale today.

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

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