Today's news was basically an expansion of Apple's digital home strategy. In the 1980s, Sony had a stronghold in terms of consumer electronics. Now Apple is doing the same thing.
Companies don't typically under promise and over deliver, and that's exactly what Apple has done.
Apple stands for something. It's very rare for somebody to be able to sustain that through such a long time. And they went through some very severe down times.
Both these products are a way to get more people slowly hooked into the Apple brand in the living room, sort of like what Sony did in its heyday.