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After nearly 22 years, Apple is stopping production of the devices that changed consumer electronics and led to the creation of the iPhone.

The iPhone continued to draw on the blend of software and services that made the iPod succeed. Still, Mr. Jobs pushed for Apple to make the iPod smaller and more powerful. At the time, a service called Napster was tormenting the music industry, making it possible for people to share any song with anyone around the world for free. Perhaps the iPod’s most important contribution was its role as a catalyst for the creation of the iPhone. As mobile phone makers began introducing devices that could play music, Apple executives worried about being leapfrogged by better technology. In essence, it made possible a Sony Walkman-size digital player with a capacity multitudes greater than anything that existed in the market. It powered Mr. Jobs’s vision for how people would purchase music in the digital age. In the late 1990s, the first digital music players were beginning to appear. It also demonstrated how the company was seldom first to market with a new product but often triumphed. The days of buying and owning 99-cent songs on an iPod largely gave way to monthly subscription offerings that provide access to broader catalogs of music. Since introducing the iPod in 2001, Apple has sold an estimated 450 million of them, according to Loup Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in tech research. The iPod began with a modest goal: Let’s create a music product that makes people want to buy more Macintosh computers. It exploded in popularity in the years that followed, creating what became known as the iPod generation.

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”.

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple on Tuesday (May 10) put out word it is no longer making iPods, the trend-setting MP3 players that transformed how people get music and ...

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Apple's iPod Touch, the only version of the portable music player still being sold, will be available till supplies last. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

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. 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 on Tuesday (May 10). SAN FRANCISCO (REUTERS) - 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.

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 ...

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.

The iPod line, which transformed the music industry two decades ago, is set to end with Apple announcing it will discontinue iPod Touch.

The iPod Touch is currently on sale on Apple’s official website, starting at USD 199 apiece. “Music’s a part of everyone’s life. Music’s been around forever.

Apple is discontinuing its portable music player iPod. A look at why it was launched back in 2001, the journey is charted for the company, what led to its ...

The company stopped reporting iPod sales in 2015. The ability to buy and download songs for 99 cents and store them in a pocket-sized device was considered cutting-edge for its time. In September 2007, just months after Apple unveiled the first iPhone, the company launched the iPod Touch — a multi-touch device that came with WiFi, Safari Browser, YouTube, etc. The increased functionalities on smartphones subjected the iPod to the diminishing utility principle. After a run that lasted more than 20 years, Apple has pulled the plug on its portable music player iPod — a device that arguably revolutionised the music industry when it was launched in October 2001. With the iPod, Apple initially had a goal to create a product that led people into buying more Macintosh computers.

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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The iPod helped remake the tech giant and usher in a new era for music; iPod Touch will be available while supplies last.

“There was nothing better than an iPod to me." The iPod helped make music more portable and was a smash hit, helping to pave the way for the company to unveil the iPhone, which put even more key functions onto one device. Now, as smartphones have grown even more sophisticated and music is largely streamed rather than accessed through paid downloads, iPod sales have diminished. Today, he streams his music on Apple Music. “The iPod brought us confidence. “If we didn’t do the iPod, the iPhone wouldn’t have come out," Tony Fadell, a former Apple senior vice president who is credited with inventing the iPod, said.