I mean, I think that's false even among Apple! The iPod came out in, what, 2001? I think a lot of people then (and me, now) would have said that that was a genuinely revolutionary product.
I don’t see why the iPod was revolutionary. While it was a very popular product, and set a high bar for MP3 players, at the end of the day it was still just another MP3 player. It didn’t create entirely new ecosystems and allow people to do things they previously couldn’t, the way the iPhone did.
I think far more revolutionary in the long term with the iPod were the digital licensing deals they managed to forge with the record labels. However, for a device of it's time it did hold novel technical features.
