End of an Era: Apple to Discontinue iPod, Ending 20-Year Run

thewrap.com:

the bomb. For people of a certain age, you remember your first iPod like you remember your first car – it had that much of an effect on you and your life.

It was a milestone.Over the years, of course, the iPod product line went through several transformations (remember the colorful, paperclip-like iPod Shuffle?) and served to inspire Apple’s flagship iPhone line.

But with the advances that initially made the iPod so revolutionary transferred over to the iPhone and the laborious task of transferring songs from your home computer to your pocket-sized DJ went into the space of the cloud, with products like Spotify and Apple Music fully replacing iTunes (and offering a nearly limitless supply of music available for streaming), it makes a certain amount of sense that the iPod will be discontinued.But it doesn’t sting any less.“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,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, in an official statement. “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.