Reason, or gloating

Gruber:

Lees might as well have said, “We think Apple is fundamentally wrong on the iPad.” But so how does Microsoft rationalize the iPad’s success and popularity?

Now let’s travel back in time to oh, say, 1985, where we find this contrivance of my imagination:

Steve Jobs might as well have said, “We think Microsoft is fundamentally wrong with Windows.” But so how does Apple rationalize Microsoft’s success and popularity?

How quickly we forget that greatness, popularity and success are not inexorably linked.