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

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

The US tech giant mentioned its iconic music player has been replaced by other gadgets, making the iPod redundant.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, said: "At present, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We have built-in 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 high quality with help for spatial audio - there is no better approach to get pleasure from, uncover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the original 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 a whole new class of digital music player that permits you to put your complete music collection in your pocket and hearken to it wherever you go," he said on the time.

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

Comparable MP3 players launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the identical success because the iPod.

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with cell phone technology enabling customers to listen to music providers on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the only mannequin nonetheless on sale right this moment.

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

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