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

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

The US tech big mentioned its iconic music player has been replaced by other units, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, said: "Immediately, 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 support for spatial audio - there isn't any better method to enjoy, discover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique iPod and it was the primary MP3 player 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 permits you to put your entire music assortment in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he mentioned on the time.

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

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

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent times, with mobile phone technology enabling customers to listen to music providers on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the one model still on sale today.

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

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