Apple is “late” to everything which is why it’s the leader
Being early is the same as being wrong and there’s no business value in costly exploration of new territory at least in the 21st century
Name me a single company that is still in business and dominating a market based on being first to market with a new product.
Depending on how you define "new" but there are certainly examples of this, Spotify is the first to come to mind, AWS could be another.
TSMC. They dominate the semiconductor market because they're consistently first to market with the world's most advanced chip fabrication.