Yeah, Gruber is one of the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for Apple outside of Cupertino itself. It comes from a place of deep and abiding love, but he seems to see Apple kind of the way its internal culture also does — as a plucky upstart who has to fight for its very survival against all the big bad industry leaders (IBM and MS, originally). That viewpoint has become more and more absurd the larger and more dominant that Apple has got, leading us to this point where they want to argue that they should be able to simultaneously be an iron-fisted gatekeeper, and a purveyor of apps that “compete” with less-privileged apps on that same platform.
Gruber has always been an Apple fanboy, but in the past few months it's taken a turn into ragebait territory, and i'm this close to stopping reading it
How many things that most people ( within Apple Fans circle ) commonly believes that are plain wrong was started by him?
Apple invented USB-C and turned it over to USB-IF
The original AirPod was sold at cost.
These are the two I remember well, others including Modem, CPU, Unified Memory, and now Payment. Although arguably Payment doesn't count because he did admit he is wrong.
Basically Gruber and Daniel Eran Dilger from AppleInsider have similar traits, they have made their own conclusion and they derived their explanation backwards.
Gruber also lies about having invented markdown, which was actually invented by Aaron Swartz in 2002 (http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/intro.html). Gruber just wrote a little perl script called Markdown.pl in 2004, but after Swartz's suicide in 2013, he pretended that he had come up with the whole thing, and has been using it to market himself ever since. Truly repugnant behavior.
Ah, now that I'm looking closer at the blog, it looks like a one-man MacRumors to me. Out of 21 blog posts this calendar year, all of them either appear to be Apple related, or they appear to be promoting his podcast, which is also about Apple.
