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The US tech big stated its iconic music player has been replaced by other units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated an incredible music expertise throughout all of our merchandise, 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 help for spatial audio - there is no better option to get pleasure from, discover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a complete new class of digital music participant that permits you to put your complete music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he stated at the time.

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

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

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary lately, with cell phone technology enabling customers to take heed to music providers on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the only model still on sale in the present day.

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

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