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

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

The US tech large stated its iconic music player has been changed by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, mentioned: "Right this moment, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We have integrated an unimaginable 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 isn't any better approach to get pleasure from, uncover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a complete new class of digital music player that permits you to put your entire music assortment in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he mentioned on the time.

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

Comparable MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the identical success because the iPod.

Apple has launched five versions of its music player - the Classic, Contact, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with mobile phone expertise enabling prospects to hearken to music services on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the only model nonetheless on sale at the moment.

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

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