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 large stated its iconic music participant has been changed by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated an unbelievable music experience across 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 high quality with support for spatial audio - there is not any better option to enjoy, uncover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented an entire new category of digital music participant that permits you to put your total music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he said on the time.

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

Related MP3 players launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success because the iPod.

Apple has launched 5 variations of its music player - the Traditional, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with cell phone expertise enabling clients to hearken to music services on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one model still on sale at this time.

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

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