Apple Will Do Anything But Actually Bring the iPod Back
THE SO WHAT
Apple turning the iPod’s 25th anniversary into an Apple Music Easter egg instead of a product move shows how hard they’re leaning into services over nostalgia hardware. If you build on Apple’s ecosystem, the growth surface is subscriptions and software experiences—not standalone devices.
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