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The US tech large stated its iconic music participant has been replaced by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've built-in an incredible music expertise across 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 quality with assist for spatial audio - there is not any better technique to get pleasure from, uncover, and expertise music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new category of digital music player that permits you to put your complete music collection in your pocket and take heed to it wherever you go," he stated on the time.

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

Related MP3 gamers launched by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success because the iPod.

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod range lately, with mobile phone know-how enabling customers to hearken to music providers on their phones.

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

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the only mannequin still on sale immediately.

Without the iPod, there would by no means have been an iPhone or iPod, in response to its inventor Tony Fadell.

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