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I don't remember where I saw it (except that it was on the Internet), but there was this guy deriding Apple for solving problems they didn't have. One example of this was when promoting OS X Apple would proudly announce that it has pre-emptive multitasking and memory protection. This was certainly an improvement over Mac OS but when OS X has been released it could hardly be considered a technological breakthrough: at the time the concept has been known for ages and for years implemented in Unix or Windows. And of course Apple would never admit that not having memory protection in Mac OS was a problem. Hence Apple being proud of solving a problem they didn't have.

This story is another example of solving a problem you don't have. Palm announces that they've overcame 16 MB memory limitation in Palm OS. Never mind that Pocket PCs are already shipping with 64 MB of RAM and the limitation in Palm is caused by their own incompetence in the first place. How they're not ashamed to call it "an innovation" is beyond me.