He's a partisan, but he calls them like he sees them. I remember when the Original Nokia Lumias rolled out, he had good things to say about both the software and the build quality.
That's not true, most of the stuff he posts about Google is negative and positive about Apple. This article is the first exception I see in years (and it's not even positive about Google, it's just neutral, which is already quite a departure from his usual prose).
