{"id":1020686,"date":"2026-07-14T08:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020686"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:55:32","slug":"iphone-isnt-apples-biggest-gadget-ever-and-steve-jobs-didnt-want-it-built-the-ipod-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/iphone-isnt-apples-biggest-gadget-ever-and-steve-jobs-didnt-want-it-built-the-ipod-story\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone isn\u2019t Apple\u2019s biggest gadget ever and Steve Jobs didn\u2019t want it built: The iPod story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the 30th-anniversary awards hosted by tech publication T3, the humble Apple iPod came into the limelight by nabbing the \u201cBiggest Product in T3\u2019s Lifetime,\u201d beating out heavy hitters like the Nintendo Switch and the original iPhone \u2013 the device that many consider the tech that changed our world. <\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 30th-anniversary awards hosted by tech publication T3, the humble Apple iPod came into the limelight by nabbing the \u201cBiggest Product in T3\u2019s Lifetime,\u201d beating out heavy hitters like the Nintendo Switch and the original iPhone \u2013 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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020693,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020686\/revisions\/1020693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}