I don't even think it's about data. Since when has Apple's strategy been about being "first" to anything? I'm probably showing my age, but I remember the iPod being ridiculed as both late to the MP3 player game, especially if you were a PC user, and lacking "key" features the competitors had like FM receivers.

Literally none of that ended up mattering to the actual success of the product, a pattern that has been repeated with a lot of Apple products. My first MP3 player, smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc, were not Apple products but that's what I own now (well except for the MP3 player which is essentially a dead product category).