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

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

"We have built-in an unimaginable music experience 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 high quality with help for spatial audio - there is not any better approach to get pleasure from, discover, and expertise 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 category of digital music participant that allows you to put your whole music assortment in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he mentioned on the time.

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

Similar MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the same success because 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 lately, with cell phone expertise enabling clients to take heed to music companies on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one mannequin nonetheless on sale today.

Without the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, in keeping with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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