"In celebration of Marvel Studio’s Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, we temporarily re-launched Zune.net last month. We also took the opportunity to fix an issue that was causing some challenges in getting the original Zune drivers to install in Windows 11 with this build in the Canary Channel. So now it should be easier to use your (totally unsupported and still discontinued) Zune on Windows 11."
Just hard to tell what's sarcasm on the internet now.
So much for the "iPod killer". And then for the Windows Phone "iPhone killer" that replaced it. The tech press is so predictably wrong, with BS clickbait headlines.
It was a joke, like saying, "You're finally with the times. Drop your tape deck, here's a Zune!" It wouldn't have landed the same way with an iPod.
Not everything is a "product placement".
In this case it was a nostalgic, offbeat item, to funnily convey those things about the character that would use one, like the Walkman and music choice was in the first movie.