Apple to Discontinue Its Last iPod Model More Than 20 Years After Introducing Product

Apple will discontinue the iPod Touch, the last widely available model of its defining line of portable media players.

The company made the announcement in a post on its website on Tuesday, detailing how Apple has evolved since the release of the first iPod over two decades ago.

“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 Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, Gregg Joswiak. "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. And Apple Music delivers industry-leading sound quality with support for spatial audio—there’s no better way to enjoy, discover, and experience music."

Apple introduced the iPod in October 2001, boasting a 5GB drive capable of storing up to 1,000 songs in MP3 format. Eventually, the company came out with the iPod Mini and iPod Photo in 2004, followed by the iPod Shuffle and Nano in 2005. The iPod Touch was released in 2007, the same year as the first-generation iPhone.

All the features the iPod boasted have for quite some time been available as part of any modern iPhone.