Has he ever been rational w.r.t. Apple? Maybe it's a recent thing and I have a poor memory, but I seem to recall him always being a fanboy (not that there's anything wrong with that).
He's never been rational, but that irrationality generally expressed itself as biting critiques of minor aesthetic and usability issues that Apple was mucking up.
He's let himself be thoroughly trolled by all the gadget blogs that alternate between calling the iPhone the best/worst thing that's ever happened in search of pageviews and as a result became very defensive and self-righteous lately. The world has been divided into those who "get" and those who don't "get" the iPad.
