Their implementation of multitasking, to which that sentence was referring, still seems to be inferior. Or let's say different, for diplomacy - yet they make it sound as if they are ahead.
Oh, I thought it was the iPad. Misremembered. At any rate, Apple really did wait to release their implementation. They didn't have inferior multitasking for years. They could have stuck in a very poor implementation to begin with (the OS has always supported it), but they did indeed wait on it.