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 giant said its iconic music player has been changed by other units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have built-in an incredible music experience 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 high quality with assist for spatial audio - there is no higher technique to enjoy, discover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a complete new class of digital music participant that permits you to put your complete music collection in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he said on the time.

"With iPod, listening to music will never be the identical once more."

Similar MP3 gamers released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success as the iPod.

Apple has released five variations of its music participant - the Traditional, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with cell phone technology enabling prospects to hearken to music companies on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only model still on sale at this time.

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

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