Apple discontinues iPod, 20 years after it was launched | Science & Tech Information

Apple has discontinued the iPod, 20 years after it was released.

The US tech giant said its iconic music participant has been replaced by other devices, making the iPod redundant.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 and marketing, said: "At this time, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We've integrated an incredible music expertise throughout 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 assist for spatial audio - there isn't any better strategy to take pleasure in, uncover, and expertise music."

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

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

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

Comparable MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the identical success as the iPod.

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent years, with cell phone technology enabling clients to listen to music services on their phones.

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

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

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

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