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

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

"We have built-in an incredible music experience across all of our products, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch to HomePod mini, and throughout Mac, iPad, and Apple TV.

"And Apple Music delivers industry-leading sound high quality with support for spatial audio - there is no better technique to take pleasure in, uncover, and expertise music."

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

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

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

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

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent times, with mobile phone know-how enabling clients to listen to music providers on their telephones.

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

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

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

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