The thing is Gruber tried to imply/claim that there was no reason to believe that there was an intent to steal credentials, i.e. the only part of the scam was t

The thing is Gruber tried to imply/claim that there was no reason to believe that there was an intent to steal credentials, i.e. the only part of the scam was the financial aspect. So no, I stand by it. If by his belief, not mine, that the app was purely a financial scam, he literally downplayed it, effectively, as "even if you're being scammed, you could have been scammed more elsewhere", and most of the rest of his writing was implying people are being overly critical of Apple. As for an uncharitable take? Were it Gruber's first forays into defending Apple in the face of evidence, maybe. After screen staining, batterygate, butterflygate, logic board issues, and several more (hell, he even defended "You're holding it wrong"), all of which Gruber insisted these were all user issues, non-issues or random events, several of which ended up resulting in warranty extensions and/or recalls, I'm less inclined to be ... 'charitable'.