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The US tech large stated its iconic music player has been replaced by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising, stated: "At present, 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 high quality with support for spatial audio - there isn't any better way to take pleasure in, discover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new class of digital music participant that permits you to put your entire music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he stated at the time.

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

Related MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success as the iPod.

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

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

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the one mannequin still on sale as we speak.

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

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