>The author uses the phrase "from our experience," but I wonder what that experience actually is. At this point, it's not even anecdotal, because he doesn't supply the anecdote!

Craig is a very well-known developer and author in the Mac and iPhone developer community and works at Iconfactory. They're one of the first companies that was addected when the Lodsys patent issue came to light. Even if you didn't know that, the very previous entry on his blog is an open letter to Apple about the problems his company is having with the patent issues. It's a little disingenuous to call someone out about omissions in a blog entry while taking zero effort to familiarize yourself with any of their work.