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 giant mentioned its iconic music participant has been changed by different units, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising and marketing, stated: "As we speak, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We have integrated an unbelievable music experience across 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 high quality with help for spatial audio - there isn't any better strategy to enjoy, discover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new category of digital music player that lets you put your total music assortment in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he mentioned on the time.

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

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

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

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

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the one mannequin still on sale immediately.

With out the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, in line with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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