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The iPod analogy is a poor one. Instead of 160TB music players, we got general computers (iPhone) with effectively unlimited storage (wireless Internet).

I don’t need to store all my music on my device. I can have it beamed directly to my ears on-demand.

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That's the point though, an iPhone is not just a bigger iPod - scaling by itself isn't enough.

No, it's not. Scaling did work. The internet gives us (effectively) unlimited storage.

We just scaled in a slightly different way.

The music part is just scaling in a different way, but that's not the reason the iPhone is so successful. The leap from iPod to iPhone was definitely not just scaling.

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