What? No, that's just wrong. The job of a journalist is to collect hard-to-find information and give it to the public; the "analysis" part is just a nice-to-have. If Kawasaki had written that on a blog post, then the article would be dumb and we should have linked there. But he didn't, he gave that quote to a journalist. And it's a good, interesting, substantial quote that the public wants to read. Thus it's useful to write about even if you have nothing to add, because it distributes the useful quote to the public.
Really, it still sounds to me like you're just upset about reading bad news about Apple.
Actually I stopped getting upset when I read anything negative about Apple when I realised I didn't care enough to feel negative. And I still think they squandered an opportunity for some really good, solid journalism. My opinion of course.
Really, it still sounds to me like you're just upset about reading bad news about Apple.