I'm not sure why I read John Gruber anymore. I get my hopes up that perhaps I'll see some of the smart, incisive that I remember from years ago, but instead I see another pretty baseless apology for Apple's behavior. He may actually be correct in this case, but it's hard to take him seriously given that he seems to bend over backwards to interpret Apple's actions as charitably as possible. This post is certainly more defensible than his recent defense of Apple's 30% application revenue power-grab, but I am skeptical that it was written in any better faith.

With every thing he writes like this, he's behaving more like a fanboy and less like a reliable source of information. It's a bit sad.