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The US tech giant said its iconic music participant has been replaced by other devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have integrated an unbelievable music expertise across all of our merchandise, 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 isn't any higher method to enjoy, uncover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented an entire new class of digital music participant that permits you to put your whole music assortment 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 same again."

Related MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success because the iPod.

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent times, with mobile phone technology enabling clients to take heed to music companies on their phones.

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

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

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

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