Can you establish that these are the exact same people? It's only hypocrisy if you can establish that. Otherwise you've merely observed in a relatively hostile way that various people have various ideas about "freedom" and that's neither news nor terribly interesting on its own.
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Can you establish that these are the exact same people? It's only hypocrisy if you can establish that. Otherwise you've merely observed in a relatively hostile way that various people have various ideas about "freedom" and that's neither news nor terribly interesting on its own.
John Gruber is playing both sides. It's veiled in his usual snark, but he has been hitting on Skyhook quite a bit:
http://daringfireball.net/2010/09/the_welcome_to_android
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/09/16/dont-be-evil
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/09/16/skyhook-google
And has also snarked about the "open for carriers" situation quite a bit:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/09/02/skype-android
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/02/att-android
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/07/17/preinstalled
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/08/06/skype-verizon
His blog has turned from an Apple love fest into a Google/android hate blog. Pretty ridiculous.