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

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

The US tech large said its iconic music participant has been changed by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an unimaginable music experience throughout 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 assist for spatial audio - there is no higher technique to take pleasure in, discover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a complete new class of digital music player that lets you put your whole music assortment in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he mentioned at 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 identical success as the iPod.

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary lately, with cell phone technology enabling prospects to listen to music services on their phones.

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

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

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

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