The Macalope doesn't consider it his business to stick up for Daring Fireball author John Gruber. He considers it his business to stick up for logic. Which brings us to Business Insider's decision to Aaron Holesgrove's .

Business Insider is apparently now soundly in the Apple-trolling camp. Duly noted. But Holesgrove himself is not strictly an Apple troll (although he's certainly trolling Gruber), so let's look at his argument. Holesgrove takes exception to Gruber's assertion that iOS set off a nuclear bomb in the cell-phone industry.

If Apple never released the iPhone, we'd be sitting here today talking about how if it weren't for Android, those three companies wouldn't be making all of those same changes or something like that -- the crippling of those companies was always inevitable.

Would Android be what it is today if the iPhone hadn't come along? It's true that the established smartphone-makers were too content with the moribund state of the market. But it's also true that the iPhone was the first to market with a design that was completely disruptive, and Android as we know it was a response to that. As to what would have happened if Apple had never brought the iPhone to market, we'll never know.