Any comment on the actual article? The entire gist of it seems quite reasonable. And you know, forget the $1M claim, and even look at the $2000 number, or just think a bit and come up with your own numbers. The point still holds.

Florian Mueller has proved himself an unreliable source too many times. I'd prefer to wait until someone else picks this story up.

He's also paid by Microsoft.

He's an analyst. Analysts are paid by anyone who wants them to research and write a report on something in the area the analyst analyzes.