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 giant stated its iconic music player has been changed by different devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have integrated an unimaginable music expertise throughout 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 technique to enjoy, uncover, and experience music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original iPod and it was the first MP3 participant that might 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 permits you to put your complete 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 once more."

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

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with mobile phone expertise enabling customers to take heed to music services on their phones.

In 2014, the traditional 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 only mannequin still on sale right this moment.

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

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