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

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

The US tech big mentioned its iconic music player has been replaced by different devices, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have integrated an incredible 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 high quality with help for spatial audio - there is not any better strategy to get pleasure from, uncover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original iPod and it was the primary MP3 player 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 participant that lets you put your whole 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 same again."

Similar MP3 gamers released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success because the iPod.

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent years, with mobile phone know-how enabling prospects to hearken to music providers on their phones.

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

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

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

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