This is like the Creative Nomad vs the iPod. HP was first to market with everything that's in the new MBP but it's incredibly unpolished and downright cumbersome to the point that it's hard to tell that these products do mostly the same thing. This how Apple captures the market, when they release a product it's so polished and functional, and they commit 100% to it that it almost always succeeds. HP and others don't spend much time if any refining ideas, they just throw sh*t against the wall and hope it sticks.

Again, I am not trying to compare the two. Just to provide some history, something tech journalists are seemingly very bad at.

I think it's a great observation about journalism and an an apt comparison.

Apple rarely invents something new but they can consistently take the same box of Lego everyone plays with and build something much cooler.

They also seem to be bad at parroting baseless claims, like faulting Apple for not releasing a processor that doesn't exist yet.