People lie^H^H^H spin all the time, Jobs included, for all sorts of reasons. They also carefully choose words and what to reveal to make statements that are unfalsifiable/defensible, but still give the wrong impression to most readers.

I believe what Jobs has written here is substantially true -- the identifiable incentives for him and the company are to reveal the smallest amount of true information possible to assuage fan and investor fears. But there always remains a nonzero chance he's using his famous 'Reality Distortion Field'. So sabat's point in the grandparent post is fair.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field

No, I don't think he would lie to this extent. That's my point. Either he's done something only a crazy person would do, or we can believe him. My point is that by coming out with specifics, he's made it easy to believe -- not just because he's being specific about what's wrong, but because if he was lying then a bunch of people would suffer horribly. (And what would be the point of that?)