Before there was U2, Apple saved ‘The Office’ by preloading Christmas special onto iPods

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Dwight Schrute, otherwise known as Raine Wilson, tells it unequivocally: If it wasn’t for the iPod being released during Christmas 2005 – and Apple putting the Christmas Episode on the iPod –the Office would have been cancelled early.