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The US tech large mentioned its iconic music player has been replaced by different units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated an incredible 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 no better way to take pleasure in, uncover, and experience music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique iPod and it was the primary MP3 player that might hold 1,000 songs and had a 10-hour battery life.

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new class of digital music participant that permits you to put your entire music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he stated at the time.

"With iPod, listening to music won't ever be the same once more."

Related MP3 players launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success as the iPod.

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod vary lately, with mobile phone technology enabling clients to hearken to music providers on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the only mannequin still on sale as we speak.

Without the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, based on its inventor Tony Fadell.

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