The article in TechCrunch was by a guest author Kim Mai Cutler hence technically not an original TechCrunch article The author s sleight in camouflaging her own opinion has been explained above and hence her motives are suspect If there are other articles with unambiguous citations it may be pointed out I may be wrong but someone needs to prove it Secondly in todays day and age all tech blogs have fallen prey to factionalism and TechCrunch is no exception Thirdly