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