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Have You Said Your Final Goodbye to the iPod as Apple Stops Production?

Apple will no longer be making iPods, the trend-setting MP3 players that transformed how people get music and gave rise to the iPhone.

The compnay had made this official in May and if you’re yet to say your “goodbye” to the device, now would be a good time.

Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs introduced the devices nearly 21 years ago with his legendary showmanship flare, and the small, easy to operate players helped the company revolutionise how music was sold and enjoyed.

The device carried “a mind-blowing 1,000 songs,” Apple said at the time, and together with Apple’s iTunes shop, established a new distribution model for the music industry.

Buying complete albums on vinyl gave way to paying 99 cents a piece for selected digital songs.

Industry trackers and California-based Apple itself have long acknowledged that the do-it-all iPhone would eat away at sales of one-trick devices such as iPod MP3 players.

The trend toward streaming music services, including one by Apple, has made devices designed just for carrying digital tunes around less enticing for consumers.

In a recent blog post, Apple had made it clear that the current generation of iPods will only be available as long as current supplies last.

“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,” said Apple senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Greg Joswiak.

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