I'm not sure I agree with everything he says (particularly the stuff about pundits trashing, the iPad; a few have, but I'd say the balance of press has been pretty heavily tilted in apple's favor), but I'm kind of blown away that I haven't seen a blog post comparing the iPad and Newton before now. Such an obvious comparison to make in hindsight.
Why are people downvoting an author asking that people maybe take a moment to check whether they're responding to a woman before they write "he"? Is it that much hassle to check a byline?
Yes. I make no apologies for the lack of a gender-neutral human pronoun in the English language. If I don't know someone's gender, I pick one or use awkward constructions involving "the author". Feel free to inform the English language standards body of their oversight so they can correct it for the next version.
