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 large said its iconic music participant has been changed by other devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have built-in an unbelievable music expertise across 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 support for spatial audio - there is no higher technique to get pleasure from, uncover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique iPod and it was the first MP3 player that might 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 won't ever be the identical once more."

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

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary lately, with mobile phone know-how enabling prospects to listen to music services on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one mannequin nonetheless on sale right this moment.

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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