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

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

The US tech big said its iconic music participant has been replaced by other units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated an unbelievable music experience across 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 support for spatial audio - there is no higher strategy to enjoy, uncover, 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 an entire new category of digital music player that permits you to put your total music assortment in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he said at the time.

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

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

Apple has released five variations of its music player - the Classic, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with mobile phone expertise enabling clients to listen to music companies on their telephones.

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 contact was the only model nonetheless on sale today.

With out the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, in keeping with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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