If I'm not mistaken I've read Gruber complain about Apple's products with bad UI/UX before. I'm not sure Apple doing this would change the outcome of the analysis. I also didn't read the article and hear "bad UI === Microsoft".
[1]http://daringfireball.net/2003/05/the_problems_with_click-th... [2]http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion