And Daring Fireball is always full of animosity against anyone against Apple. Are they sponsored by Apple? Alas, fan boys need no corporate sponsorship to throw dirt from the trenches.
I'm not sure about in general, but I think they presented good supporting evidence in this case.
Not really, Arrington presented anecdotal evidence, and Gruber smacked him down with a survey contradicting the anecdotal evidence. Unless some new evidence comes to light, Gruber's point of view holds more weight.
When I said 'they' I was referring to Daring Fireball.
My bad :-) Being a Daring Fireball regular, I just think of it as being Gruber - hence a use of 'they' indicates someone else for me. That'll teach me to pay a bit more attention when reading!
I remember their article about how free software will never be usable because usability requires a visionary like Steve Jobs(although it was really Jef Raskin that did most of the work)