Wow.

The blazingly white-hot entitlement evident here (strictly for US audiences, mind you) makes me feel extremely nauseated, and I'm already familiar with the inherent bias of this shill blog.

Yay Markdown (seriously - thank you).

I still deeply abhor this Elysium / Centurion lounge metaphor, the defense of that elitist behavior, and all this post tries to convey.

Which entitlement do you mean exactly?

I think Gruber is asking in the post, why do Android users feel entitled to access iMessage, a service that they don't pay for?

Many of the people you're speaking of are iPhone owners who want to interoperate with their other devices.

so much apple apologism.

so, beeper (multi IM client) is the bad guy because they charge $2 to offer an aggregation service.

but apple is the good guy because they keep f@+$#@ the competition in detriment of what their $1200 per year device clients want to do with said devices?

oh yeah daringfireball, let's jail those criminal beeper founders!