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.