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The US tech large stated its iconic music player has been replaced by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have integrated an unbelievable 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 support for spatial audio - there is no better strategy to get pleasure from, discover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique 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 class of digital music player that allows you to put your total music collection in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he mentioned at the time.

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

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

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent times, with cell phone expertise enabling prospects to hearken to music companies on their telephones.

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 touch was the only model nonetheless on sale right this moment.

Without the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, in line with its inventor Tony Fadell.

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