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

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

The US tech giant mentioned its iconic music player has been replaced by other units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have integrated an unbelievable music expertise 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 high quality with support for spatial audio - there's no higher option to take pleasure in, 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 an entire new class of digital music participant that lets you put your entire music assortment in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he mentioned at the time.

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

Related MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the identical success as the iPod.

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent times, with cell phone technology enabling clients to hearken to music providers on their phones.

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

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

With out the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, in response to its inventor Tony Fadell.

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