The iPod, the story of the device Apple almost didn't make

The iPod, one of Apple's most iconic products, laid the foundations for the iPhone and Apple's ecosystem as we know it today.However, you may not know that this device could have been manufactured by another company.If things had happened differently, Apple would never have launched the iPod in 2001, and its fate as a company could have been quite different. Apple's problem in the late 1990sIn 1997, when Steve Jobs returned to Apple, the company…