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The iPod was a line of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc., first introduced in 2001. The product line was discontinued in 2022.

We dig behind iPod's stated narrative to unravel the real strategy — the calls that actually shaped it, and why they played out the way they did.

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Industry
Consumer electronics
Founded
2001
Headquarters
Cupertino, United States
Ownership
Product of Apple Inc.

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The Adjacency Expansion · Growth & Portfolio
The iPod Was Apple's Trojan Horse, Pulling Millions of Windows Users In Before the iPhone Needed Them
Apple sold the iPod as 'a whole new category of digital music player.' It was really a Trojan horse: a mass-market device that pulled hundreds of millions of Windows users into Apple's software, its store, and its identity - years before the iPhone needed exactly those people.
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