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

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

"We've integrated an incredible music expertise across all of our products, 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 is not any higher technique to get pleasure from, uncover, and experience music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original iPod and it was the primary MP3 participant that could maintain 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 complete music collection in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he said on the time.

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

Comparable MP3 gamers launched by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the same success as the iPod.

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent times, with mobile phone know-how enabling customers to hearken to music companies on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one model still on sale at this time.

Without the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, in line with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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