End of a time: Apple says farewell to iPod Nano and Shuffle

Apple has ceased the remainder of its devoted music players.

Mac has expelled the iPod Nano and Shuffle from its online stores, the last two of its music-just gadgets from a range that was commenced 16 years back by the dispatch of the 1,000 tune iPod Classic. 

The iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle were relics of Apple's portable music-playing equipment, which didn't run iOS and needed help for Apple's music spilling administration Apple Music. 

The two items have now vanished from Apple's site and online store, with pages diverting to Apple Music. Apple will keep offering the gadgets in stores until the point when stocks run out. 

Mac still offers the iPod Touch be that as it may, running on iOS, yet this can be thought of as a four-inch iPad or a wi-fi iPhone, dissimilar to Apple's unique buyer gadgets. 

"Today, we are disentangling our iPod lineup, with two models of iPod touch now with twofold the limit beginning at just £199, and we are ceasing the iPod rearrange and iPod nano," Apple said in an announcement to ZDNet. 

Macintosh has likewise lessened the cost of the iPod Touch 32GB and 128GB models to $199 and $299, individually. In the UK, they're £199 and £299. 

Macintosh presented the main iPod Classic in 2001, soon after the dispatch of iTunes, which turned into the iPod's music administration programming. It went ahead to end up noticeably a famous customer gadget that varied from Apple's conventional market in portable PCs and desktops. 

The first iPod had a limit of only 5GB however it was sufficient to store 1,000 melodies. Later models expanded to 30GB, enabling clients to convey vast inventories explore them effortlessly with Apple's mark scroll wheel. 

The iPod Classic was trailed by the iPod Mini, which was supplanted by the iPod Nano in 2005, offering a significantly more slender plan than the first. 

Reporting the Nano, Steve Jobs broadly pulled one from his pants coin take, charging it the greatest thing since the iPod Classic. It was 80 percent more slender than the Classic, yet still held 1,000 melodies. 

The iPod likewise assumed a vital part in offering the iPhone with one of iOS 1.0's key elements being the iPod application. Mac kept on calling its fundamental music application "iPod" until the point that iOS 5's discharge in 2011 and renamed it 'Music'. It resigned the iPod Classic in 2014. 

Macintosh went ahead to offer around 350 million iPods through to 2012, and soon thereafter deals were long in consistent decrease because of the iPhone, iPad, and Android telephones.