Have you ever tucked headphones into your sleeves and secretly listened to Jay Chou on your iPod in class? Apple's classic product, the iPod, which has been released for 21 years, is a memory of the student era for many people, marked with the mark of youth. However, according to foreign media reports, Apple recently officially announced the cessation of production of iPods.
It is understood that the iPod launched in 2001 was the first MP3 player capable of storing 1000 songs. In addition to iTouch, other product lines include the iPod mini, iPod Nano, and iPod Shuffle. The iPod series helped usher in a new era of music industry and technology, and until 2011, Apple had a 70% share of the global MP3 player market, and to date, the iPod sold more than 400 million units.
Apple's official website information shows that Apple stopped selling its last independent music player Nano and Shuffle in 2017, and the latest music player, iPod Touch, has not updated the system since 2019, and many of its features can be implemented and iterated on Apple's other products.
Apple said it will continue to sell the iPod Touch until the end of supply, which is the only generation of iPods still on sale. In this regard, industry experts predict that in view of the popularity of the iPhone and other smartphones that can be used to listen to music, iTouch will also face a shutdown after the discontinuation of the iPod.
As soon as this news was sent, it aroused the "memory killing" of many netizens. Some netizens said: "The iPod discontinuation is the end of an era. Another commented: "My iPod is more important in my heart than any iPhone." ”
In a statement by Apple announcing the discontinuation of the iPod, Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice president of global marketing, said that "the spirit of the iPod lives on." "Music has always been a core part of Apple, and Apple products bring music to hundreds of millions of users, just as the iPod not only affected the music industry, it also redefined the way music is found, listened to and shared," he said.
Nine Pai News intern reporter Chen Mengting
【Source: Jiupai News】
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