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.