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

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

The US tech large stated its iconic music player has been changed by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising, mentioned: "At this time, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We've built-in an incredible music expertise 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 no better method to enjoy, discover, and experience music."

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

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

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

Similar MP3 gamers launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the identical success because the iPod.

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod vary lately, with cell phone technology enabling clients to listen to music companies on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one mannequin still on sale as we speak.

With out the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, based on its inventor Tony Fadell.

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