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The US tech large stated its iconic music participant has been replaced by other devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an unbelievable music expertise throughout 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 support for spatial audio - there is no better approach to get pleasure from, discover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique iPod and it was the first MP3 player that might 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 lets you put your entire music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he said on the time.

"With iPod, listening to music will never be the identical once more."

Related MP3 gamers released by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the identical success as the iPod.

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary lately, with cell phone technology enabling clients to hearken to music companies on their telephones.

In 2014, the basic click wheel model was discontinued, and the Shuffle and Nano were killed off three years later.

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only mannequin nonetheless on sale as we speak.

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

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