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 giant stated its iconic music participant has been changed by other devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've 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 quality with help for spatial audio - there's no higher approach to enjoy, uncover, and experience music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique 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 a complete new category of digital music participant that lets you put your entire music collection in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he mentioned on the time.

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

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

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent times, with cell phone technology enabling clients to hearken to music companies on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the one mannequin still on sale at this time.

With out the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, according to its inventor Tony Fadell.

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