> the iPhone bashing is getting rather tedious

After reading the article twice, I couldn't find a single thing that even approached iPhone "bashing". The only thing that even came close was posted in the title, and even that was just a simple statement of fact with no malice intended as are as I can tell.

Agreed. Its as if someone wrote an article about how to do pointer manipulation chicanery and then commented "this wouldn't even be possible in Java." Its a technical "fact" of sorts here.