You're wrong. I'm way out here in the apple camp myself (see me wave among my iMacs and Airs? Hi.), but he's most definitely correct with his general comment that the lack of affordances is something Apple doesn't solve. They do this out of love for simplicity, and while they often find the right balance between that simplicity and raw hidden power, sometimes (as is the case with the external Superdrive) you do need control.
It is possible to have both control and looks (most Apple products are good in this regard), but in the case of the superdrive, they went just a notch too far and assumed that the 1% of cases when you need to force a disc out, doesn't exist.
A touch interface, like iPad's, which he also criticizes, is like one giant bloody affordance.
99% of the touch targets are obvious.
There have been videos of babies, 5 year olds and autistic kids using an iPad just fine.
As for the 1% of the rest you can just discover them in time. Not everything needs to be in your face, especially if it's a secondary function. And iPad has tons of discoverability, especially how you can't really mess it up whatever you do, just delete an app and reinstall it in the worst case and you're where you left.
