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

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

The US tech giant said its iconic music player has been replaced by different gadgets, making the iPod redundant.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

"We've built-in an unimaginable music expertise throughout all of our merchandise, 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 help for spatial audio - there isn't any better strategy to get pleasure from, uncover, and experience music."

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

"With iPod, Apple has invented an entire new class of digital music participant that allows 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 once more."

Similar MP3 players launched by Microsoft and Sony didn't have the identical success as the iPod.

Apple has launched five versions of its music participant - the Basic, Contact, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

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

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

The seventh-generation iPod contact was the one mannequin still on sale as we speak.

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

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