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The US tech large said its iconic music player has been replaced by different devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an unimaginable 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 quality with help for spatial audio - there is not any higher technique to take pleasure in, uncover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new category of digital music player that lets you put your total music assortment in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he mentioned at the time.

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

Related MP3 gamers released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the identical success as the iPod.

Apple has launched five variations of its music participant - the Traditional, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with mobile phone technology enabling prospects to hearken to music providers on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the only mannequin still on sale right now.

Without the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, based on its inventor Tony Fadell.

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