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 said its iconic music player has been changed by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated an unbelievable music experience 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 quality with support for spatial audio - there is not any better strategy 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 would 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 stated on the time.

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

Related MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the identical success as the iPod.

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with cell phone know-how enabling prospects to take heed to music services on their telephones.

In 2014, the traditional click wheel mannequin 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 at the moment.

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

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