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

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

The US tech giant stated its iconic music participant has been replaced by other devices, making the iPod redundant.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide advertising and marketing, mentioned: "As we speak, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We've built-in an unbelievable music expertise throughout all of our products, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch to HomePod mini, and across Mac, iPad, and Apple TV.

"And Apple Music delivers industry-leading sound high quality with support for spatial audio - there is no better method to enjoy, uncover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique iPod and it was the first MP3 player 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 permits you to put your complete music assortment 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 once more."

Comparable MP3 gamers launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the identical success as the iPod.

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent times, with cell phone expertise enabling customers to take heed to music companies on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only mannequin nonetheless on sale in the present day.

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

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