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 mentioned its iconic music participant has been changed by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an unimaginable music expertise throughout 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 assist for spatial audio - there isn't any better option to enjoy, discover, 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 allows you to put your entire music collection in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he mentioned at the time.

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

Similar MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the identical success because the iPod.

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with mobile phone technology enabling clients to take heed to music providers on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the only model still on sale today.

Without the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, in line with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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