This whole thing can be reduced to "people who engage in idle gossip are generally speaking not the sharpest pencils in the box". Most people with half a brain

This whole thing can be reduced to "people who engage in idle gossip are generally speaking not the sharpest pencils in the box". Most people with half a brain just kept their mouth shut, so there's really no way to draw any conclusion about the Apple community as a whole, unless you can produce an accurate number on the people that ignored the whole thing.