Steve Jobs Talks iBook, AirPort, and More in Newly Surfaced 1999 Video — MacRumors
The talk outlines Apple’s product strategy at the time, centered on its four-quadrant lineup of consumer and professional desktops and portables. With the iBook, Jobs said the matrix was complete alongside the iMac, Power Mac G3, and PowerBook G3, and noted that several of these products were already on their second or third iterations.
Incremental updates isn’t something new at Apple. Gurman lamenting about recent updates being incremental shouldn’t know better.