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 big mentioned its iconic music player has been changed by different units, making the iPod redundant.

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

"We've integrated 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 isn't any higher option to enjoy, uncover, and experience music."

In October 2001, Steve Jobs debuted the unique 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 a whole new class of digital music player that allows you to 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 won't ever be the identical once more."

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

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

The corporate has been slowly killing its iPod vary in recent times, with cell phone expertise enabling clients to take heed to music services 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 touch was the only mannequin nonetheless on sale immediately.

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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