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The US tech large said its iconic music participant has been replaced by different devices, making the iPod redundant.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, mentioned: "As we speak, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We have integrated an incredible music expertise across 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 quality with support for spatial audio - there's no better technique to enjoy, discover, and experience 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 an entire new category of digital music participant that permits 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 will never be the identical once more."

Similar MP3 players launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success as the iPod.

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with cell phone expertise enabling customers to hearken to music companies on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one mannequin still on sale in the present day.

Without the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, according to its inventor Tony Fadell.

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