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 units, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, said: "As we speak, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We've integrated an unimaginable music experience throughout all of our merchandise, 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 help for spatial audio - there's no better option to get pleasure from, uncover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented an entire new category of digital music player that allows you to put your whole music assortment in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he mentioned at the time.

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

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

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

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

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the one model still on sale right now.

Without the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, in response to its inventor Tony Fadell.

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