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

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

The US tech giant mentioned its iconic music participant has been replaced by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated an unimaginable music experience across 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 help for spatial audio - there's no higher way to get pleasure from, uncover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a complete new category of digital music participant that lets you put your whole music assortment in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he mentioned on the time.

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

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

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent times, with mobile 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 have been killed off three years later.

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only mannequin still on sale in the present day.

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

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