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

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

The US tech giant said its iconic music participant has been replaced by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising and marketing, stated: "As we speak, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We've built-in 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 quality with help for spatial audio - there is not any better way to get pleasure from, uncover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new category of digital music participant that allows you to put your entire music collection in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he mentioned at the time.

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

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

Apple has released 5 variations of its music player - the Classic, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with mobile phone technology enabling clients to take heed to music services on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the only model still on sale immediately.

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

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