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

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

The US tech large mentioned its iconic music player has been replaced by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated 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 quality with assist for spatial audio - there is no higher strategy to get pleasure from, uncover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique 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 an entire new class of digital music player that allows you to put your complete music assortment in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he mentioned on the time.

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

Related MP3 gamers released by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the same success as the iPod.

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with mobile phone expertise enabling prospects to take heed to music companies on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only mannequin still on sale today.

With out the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, based on its inventor Tony Fadell.

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