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

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

The US tech large mentioned its iconic music participant has been changed by other devices, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising, said: "Today, 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 high quality with help for spatial audio - there is not any better technique to enjoy, uncover, and expertise music."

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

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

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

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

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent times, with cell phone technology enabling prospects to take heed to music companies on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the one model still on sale right this moment.

With out the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, in response to its inventor Tony Fadell.

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