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

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

The US tech giant said its iconic music player has been replaced by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We have integrated an unimaginable 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 quality with support for spatial audio - there's no higher solution 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 might maintain 1,000 songs and had a 10-hour battery life.

"With iPod, Apple has invented a complete new category of digital music player that allows you to put your whole music assortment in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he stated at the time.

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

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

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

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with cell phone expertise enabling prospects to take heed to music providers on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the only model still on sale at the moment.

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

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