Does calling yourself the .NET professor qualify you to criticize the iPhone interface?

Check out this article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070625/tc_nm/iphone_hype_dc_1;_ylt=AnK2ahHE7bOdow9_4d4nbPYE1vAI

David Platt, Harvard professor of computer science and self-professed ".NET professor", claims buyers will be "frustrated" by the iPhone interface when it takes "5 or 6 clicks" to do something. This, I assume, without him ever using it himself. In other news, he calls a Playboy centerfold "it" in the same article.