[alphabettsy]

By that measure the original Pixel copied the iPhone 6 that arrived two years before since it had HDR. What's the point of this game?

[FreakyT]

I think parent is taking issue with the weird "Apple is smart!" opening narrative, which seems to imply that Apple came up with computational photography, as opposed to it simply being a general industry trend.

[izacus]

The point is that author is doing the same thing as lot of Apple fans do: tries to rewrite history to show that Apple invented something.

[alphabettsy]

The author doesn’t state anywhere that Apple invented it, but we all interpret things with our own biases.