- Apple discontinues iPod 20 years after the machine confirmed up.
- iPod Contact, transportable music participant, remains to be being offered.
- Apple stopped reporting iPod gross sales in 2015.
Apple is discontinuing the iPod greater than 20 years after the machine turned the face of transportable music and kickstarted its meteoric evolution into the world’s greatest firm.
The iPod Contact, the one model of the transportable music participant nonetheless being offered, will probably be out there until provides final, Apple mentioned in a weblog publish on Tuesday.
Since its launch in 2001, the iPod took on a storm of competing music gamers earlier than being eclipsed by smartphones, on-line music streaming and inside the Apple pantheon, by the rise of the iPhone.
The iPod has undergone a number of iterations since its inception that includes a scroll wheel, the capability to retailer a 1,000 songs and a 10-hour battery-life. The model that has been carried until date – the iPod Contact – was launched in 2007, the identical 12 months because the iPhone.
Apple stopped reporting iPod gross sales in 2015.
