Personally, I think this is the worst thing that could happen to the community. I watched this happen, the "price" that AMT_ put on Phin's head, the sudden 180 Phin made almost directly after that, the friendly talk to and fro and the video. It is kind of sickening, really. And scary.
Brilliant tactics, I have to admit (divide et impera and all that) but scary nonetheless.
Its happened before. Phin was once on a "google crusade" against BFL. Mind you, not one warranted by their deceit/fraud, but pretty much exactly like happened with AMT. In both cases you have real companies working on real products, that are really shitty, really late, really overpromised and quite deliberately so. Instead of focusing on the actual and demonstrable lies, Phin starts gunning at anything that moves with far fetched or plain silly hypothesis based on google search results. Once in a while he does uncover something mildly interesting, but mostly its just BS.
Then Phinn gets the meet the people, like he did with BFL, and makes a 180. At some point he even seemed like an apologist for BFL. Its hard to say if in either case, that 180 is the result of some deal/bribe, or if its just human nature to act very differently vis a vis people you actually met compared to just a forum handle, but Im not surprised one tiny bit by none of whats happened here. Not the AMT delays, not the missing of deadlines, not the missing of specs, not the overreaction of Phin, not his 180.