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

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

The US tech giant said its iconic music participant has been replaced by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have integrated an unbelievable music experience throughout 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 help for spatial audio - there's no better strategy to take pleasure in, uncover, and experience music."

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

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

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

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

Apple has launched 5 versions of its music participant - the Classic, Contact, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

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

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only model still on sale at this time.

Without the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, based on its inventor Tony Fadell.

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