[puppybeard]

I agree with you, and MG Siegler, by extension, that most tech writing is crap. The best writing I've seen is always by technical professionals, rather than journalists assigned to write about technology. However I count Siegler as in the latter camp. He's a fanboy and he's never built anything.

With his article above he's saying "this criticism of a company I'm involved with isn't valid, because these people aren't technically expert". That's wrong because you don't need to be a technical expert to value and appreciate personal privacy, which is the key issue. It's also hypocritical, because he's not a technical expert himself. Like the people he complains about, he makes his money from hype generated around products, without being capable of making his own product.