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

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

The US tech large mentioned its iconic music player has been replaced by different devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have integrated an incredible 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 quality with assist for spatial audio - there is not any better option to take pleasure in, discover, and experience music."

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

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

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

Similar MP3 gamers released by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the identical success as the iPod.

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with cell phone technology enabling clients to take heed to music companies on their telephones.

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 in the present day.

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

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