As I read more articles about the situation, I'm starting to come around on the idea that it _is_ possible. Nevertheless DHH and the team are pretty experienced for me to immediately buy into that theory.

Yet, let's say this were true, or even the most likely scenario. Now you have 3 scenarios, ALL of which portray "Apple = bad, Basecamp = good."

When I see something that one-sided, I'm immediately suspicious that there's something missing here that we're not seeing...