iPod

It's the end of an era. Today's cancellation of the seventh-generation iPod touch means the iPod range is over.

Apart from the Mac, the iPod is the longest-lasting Apple product, so today’s sudden announcement is a big change. Additionally, the iPod was never updated to add Face ID or an advanced camera, sticking with the four-inch display first seen on the iPhone 5. There’s only one iPod available to buy these days, and that’s the iPod touch.

Apple is discontinuing its MP3 player, bringing an end to device that transformed how we listen to music. Apple iPod First generation, with mechanical ...

Aside from the Touch, versions included the iPod mini, iPod Nano, and iPod Shuffle. The iPod was released in 2001, and was the first MP3 player capable of storing 1,000 songs. Apple said it would continue to sell the Touch, the only generation of the iPod still on sale, “while supplies last”.

The iPod was the first MP3 player capable of storing 1000 songs and came with 10-hour battery life. Apple has discontinued the iPod music player after more than ...

"We've integrated an incredible music experience across all of our products, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch to HomePod mini, and across Mac, iPad, and Apple TV. "Music has always been part of our core at Apple, and bringing it to hundreds of millions of users in the way iPod did impacted more than just the music industry - it also redefined how music is discovered, listened to, and shared," he said. Apple said it would continue to sell the Touch, the last remaining generation of the iPod on sale, "while supplies last".

The iPod Touch will still be available for purchase online and at Apple Store locations “while supplies last.” Apple CEO Steve Jobs displays the iPod Mini ...

said another Twitter user, who linked to images of the iPod over time. With an internet connection, the latest iPod Touch can send iMessages and make FaceTime calls. It launched the iPod Touch, which looked like an iPhone, in 2007.

Apple has pulled the plug on the iPod more than two decades after introducing the game-changing music player, sayings it's been replaced by other devices.

"We've integrated an incredible music experience across all of our products, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch to HomePod mini, and across Mac, iPad, and Apple TV. "Music has always been part of our core at Apple, and bringing it to hundreds of millions of users in the way iPod did impacted more than just the music industry - it also redefined how music is discovered, listened to, and shared," he said. Greg Joswiak, Apple senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, said the iPod had "redefined how music was discovered".

After that, Apple music fans will have to access their tunes from the tech giant's multitude of other devices including iPhone, iPad, Mac and its HomePod Mini.

"Today, the spirit of iPod lives on. We've integrated an incredible music experience across all of our products, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch to HomePod mini, and across Mac, iPad and Apple TV. Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Greg Joswiak said the "spirit" of the iPod will live on.

Apple is discontinuing the iPod more than 20 years after the device became the face of portable music and kickstarted its meteoric evolution into the ...

The iPod has undergone several iterations since its inception featuring a scroll wheel, the capacity to store a 1,000 songs and a 10-hour battery-life. Apple is discontinuing the iPod more than 20 years after the device became the face of portable music and kickstarted its meteoric evolution into the world's biggest company. The iPod Touch, the only version of the portable music player still being sold, will be available till supplies last, Apple said in a blog post.

The gadget that helped shape the music listening experience for a generation will now only available for purchase 'while supplies last'.

“Thank you for making Music and consumer electronics fun!” said another Twitter user, who linked to images of the iPod over time. The iPod touch will still be available for purchase online and at Apple Store locations “while supplies last”. The company first introduced the iPod in 2001, boasting about the device’s “1000 CD-quality song” capacity.

Of course, back in 2001, when the first iPod launched, it was all about freedom. Just as the Sony Walkman had freed us before so we could take our music with us ...

While the iPod touch does most of the things an iPhone can, it’s hard to get away from the idea that came with its launch, that it is all about music. It’s fair to say that having an iPod equivalent in every iPhone from the first up until the iPhone 13 Pro Max, made a separate device in your pocket less important. The Apple iPod wasn’t the first digital player but it was the best-looking, the coolest and by far the easiest to use. But the big change came when Spotify arrived and meant you could stream music. No longer did we have to listen to the 10 songs on a retail cassette or CD, or twice that on a home-crafted mix tape. Just take a look at the image at the top of this post: the pleasantly tactile clickwheel, the shiny finish, even the onscreen font all have a gorgeous, classic look.

It held my favourite mainstream tracks – and the obscure ones. But it couldn't hold off the march of time, and Spotify, says freelance writer Dorian ...

Yet the iPod, as opposed to the broader concept of the digital music player, relies on one company, so it is as dead as something can be, devoured by the very revolution it launched. What the author Stephen Witt calls “the most ubiquitous gadget in the history of stuff” did more for Apple – paving the way for the iPhone and iPad – than it did for the music industry. Still, I’m well aware that I’m not the typical music consumer, and it would be hard to argue that the world’s most valuable company should continue to cater for collectors who simply must own the Chemical Brothers remix of Spiritualized or MIA’s debut mixtape. Yet the iPod still has advantages over streaming, and not just the fact that it won’t pay a podcaster millions of dollars to talk nonsense about vaccines. It is stolidly oblivious to the internet and its galaxy of distractions. I never owned a Touch, so its demise doesn’t move me any more than that of the Nano and Shuffle five years ago.

Apple grew into the behemoth it is today thanks to the iPhone. But much of the momentum and ideas it had that helped it create the smartphone came from its ...

As iPhone sales took off like a rocket, fewer and fewer people bought iPods. In 2010, the iPad (which Apple dreamed up as a touchscreen device before it came up with the idea for the iPhone) was introduced. The Touch was also the last easily pocketable device that Apple sold with (say it with me now) a headphone jack. That type of success doesn’t come down to any one factor; it happens thanks to a decade-plus-long series of good decisions and solid marketing. The iPod’s importance at Apple continued to diminish over the next decade. At the time, those would’ve been second-gen Shuffles, first and second-gen iPod Touches, fourth-gen Nanos, and the iPod Classic. It had launched the iTunes Music Store in 2003 as a way to purchase digital music for your then-new third-gen iPod. And Apple started selling movies on iTunes in 2006 as it built out its infrastructure for the age of portable media consumption. Starting at $199 for a 32GB model, it was the cheapest iOS device you could buy new from Apple. That honor now falls to the entry-level iPad, which starts at $329 for a 64GB model. Jobs used that as a selling point when introducing it, saying that iPod owners would already know how to set up their phone and would likely have their data already in iTunes. And after you set the phone up, you’d see an app called iPod on it — its icon depicting a classic scrollwheel-adorned device. This week, Apple announced that it’s discontinuing the iPod Touch, its last product with the “iPod” name. By the time it launched in 2008, Apple already had half a decade of experience building and maintaining a digital storefront. But while the original iMac stabilized Apple as a company, Apple was still a niche player when it came to the overall consumer electronics market. In 2002, Apple sold around 400,000 iPods, according to Statista. By 2006, Apple was selling 39 million of them a year.

A long, long time ago before the iPod, MP3 players were badly designed devices with insufficient storage. The market was ripe for a change, and Steve Jobs, ...

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