Comment by Nevermark

Apple didn't do X they just shipped the new X components.

Apple takes the time to evaluate new components, bothers to adapt to the new components, re-optimizes other components around the new components, ships the new components.

Eventually,... eventually someone else does too.

Not always the pattern.

But the number of ways people try to punch holes in an earned reputation is remarkable. They got the reputation for doing some things right. Maybe not everything right, maybe not the things someone thought were right, or someone thought should be right, or what they would have done, or what someone thinks they claimed they did, that they actually didn't claim...