iPhone isn’t Apple’s biggest gadget ever and Steve Jobs didn’t want it built: The iPod story

At the 30th-anniversary awards hosted by tech publication T3, the humble Apple iPod came into the limelight by nabbing the “Biggest Product in T3’s Lifetime,” beating out heavy hitters like the Nintendo Switch and the original iPhone – the device that many consider the tech that changed our world.

But why the iPod? Why not the iPhone, which did everything the iPod did, and combined the functionalities of a pocket internet explorer and a phone?