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 mentioned its iconic music player has been changed by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have integrated an incredible music experience across all of our products, 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 not any better technique to take pleasure in, discover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a complete new category of digital music participant that lets you put your total music collection in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he said on the time.

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

Similar MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success as 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 times, with cell phone technology enabling prospects to hearken to music services 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 touch was the one model nonetheless on sale right this moment.

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

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