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

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

The US tech big said its iconic music player has been replaced by other units, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising, stated: "Immediately, 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 quality with assist for spatial audio - there is not any higher strategy to enjoy, uncover, and experience music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original iPod and it was the primary MP3 participant 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 participant that allows you to put your entire music assortment in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he stated on the time.

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

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

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

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

In 2014, the classic click on wheel model was discontinued, and the Shuffle and Nano have been killed off three years later.

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the only mannequin still on sale at the moment.

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

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