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Re:20 years of the iPod by joezydeco on Sunday October 24, 2021 @01:11PM (#28979870)
iTunes for Windows is what made Apple a trillion dollar company.

https://qz.com/136239/making-itunes-available-for-windows-ch...

The iPod would have languished and died otherwise, and it certainly wouldn't have put Apple on track (and swelling with cash) to do iPhone later on.

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Re:20 years of the iPod by stefan_ on Sunday October 24, 2021 @01:50PM (#28980275)
Remember when they made iMessage for Android and WhatsApp never happened?

Oh wait, that part didn't happen.

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Re:20 years of the iPod by toast0 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @08:37PM (#28983327)
WhatsApp was around before iMessage, so it being available on Android wouldn't have prevented WhatsApp. BBM on other platforms might have.
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