For decades whatever Apple does no matter how stupid becomes the next trend other tech companies will mindlessly chase.
sorry that's not software engineering but typical blind Apple hatred, if you're unable to recognize the contributions they've made to the industry for the past decades, then perhaps you need to delve deeper into the subject
Apple does release excellent things every year for the development on their own platforms along with their own API kits which sometimes are very innovative and opens up new use cases, apart from 1. the whole App Store situation where they are reckless and we can all agree on that, 2. the fact they remove support of old software (not hardware) a bit too quickly in some cases