On the outside it is of course impossible to know. But if you listen to Steve Jobs speak, you see he has healthy sense of humor. I would guess if Apple did fe

On the outside it is of course impossible to know. But if you listen to Steve Jobs speak, you see he has healthy sense of humor. I would guess if Apple did feint in the 7" direction earlier this year, Steve probably got a big kick out of now slamming competitors for following. Probably not as big a kick as he got from his comments about the PC being the "truck" to the iPad "automobile" that only farmers will still use, after in 2007 in his joint interview at All Things Digital with Bill Gates when he stated that PCs and mobile devices would coexist in a PC-centric ecosystem, but fun nonetheless. By 2007 the iPhone design was basically complete as were Apple's plans to supplant the PC. In this earnings call, Jobs basically ranted about how it isn't Open vs Closed that is important. This is probably aimed at solidifying the competition's commitment to an Open system and making them less likely to switch to Closed and "admit Apple was right", when the "Closed" nature of Apple's devices is a critical competitive advantage of the Apple platform.