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

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

The US tech big mentioned its iconic music participant has been changed by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated an unimaginable music experience across 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 strategy to take pleasure in, discover, and expertise music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique iPod and it was the primary MP3 participant that might hold 1,000 songs and had a 10-hour battery life.

"With iPod, Apple has invented an entire new category of digital music player that allows you to put your complete music assortment in your pocket and hearken 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 didn't have the identical success because the iPod.

Apple has launched 5 versions of its music player - the Traditional, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

The company has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent years, with mobile phone know-how enabling customers to listen to music companies on their telephones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only model nonetheless on sale today.

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

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