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

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

The US tech giant said its iconic music participant has been changed by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, mentioned: "At present, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We have built-in an unbelievable music expertise throughout 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 assist for spatial audio - there is not any higher approach to get pleasure from, uncover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original iPod and it was the first MP3 participant that might maintain 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 collection in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he said at the time.

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

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

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent years, with mobile phone expertise enabling customers to hearken to music companies on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only mannequin still on sale right this moment.

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

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