HN "rules" say I shouldn't upvote snark, so I didn't, but I think you're right on. I like my iPhone and my Mac but jeez, sometimes the drama over the simplest things is over the top...especially when the "innovation" isn't much, if anything.

What drama are you talking about? I see no drama at all. There's a bit of marketing copy for a product description, but it's hardly calling it innovative or life changing - it just explains what it can be used for. And if you're referring to the fact that a dock was submitted to HN at all, it's somewhat interesting because Apple hasn't produced docks for a while, and people on HN might be interested.

This isn't showing off Apple's engineering or innovative genius or whatever, it's just a courtesy to the Apple customers of HN: here's a new product, you might want it.

Sorry; I didn't mean drama on HN specifically but rather that Apple's pedestrian development is typically received with the same over-the-top accolades that their cool technical development receive (which frankly serves to devalue the technical advancement IMHO). And really, it's hard to find something more pedestrian than a dock, yet there have been about a dozen articles in my RSS feeds.

Admittedly they do quite a bit of advanced stuff that's over most of the press's heads (look at the security architecture that protects your fingerprints, or the implementations of their recent CPUs) so I shouldn't complain.