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The US tech giant said its iconic music player has been replaced by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.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 have 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 quality with assist for spatial audio - there is not any better method to enjoy, discover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a complete new category of digital music player that lets you put your complete music collection in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he stated at the time.

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

Related MP3 players launched by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the same success as the iPod.

Apple has released 5 versions of its music player - the Traditional, Contact, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The company has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent times, with cell phone expertise enabling customers to hearken to music services on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one model nonetheless on sale right now.

Without the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, in line with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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