Be careful with quotes like this. Steve Jobs was a salesperson. He has had a good history of selling compromises as intent.

Remember when he was trying to tell us that the original iPhone having no App Store was intentional, we don’t need it, because we have the best web browser? Yeah, that was just a plain lie because the App Store wasn’t ready.

Or the time he got on stage and acted like the Rokr was a good phone (although you could see through that one a little better).