> Is it possible his presentation was tailored for an audience to sell them on a new product and not necessarily a brain dump of his deepest darkest secret hope

> Is it possible his presentation was tailored for an audience to sell them on a new product and not necessarily a brain dump of his deepest darkest secret hopes for technology? In war, you go to battle with the army you have (at the moment the war starts). In business, you go to market with the product you have. The original iPhone was very limited by it's hardware and even more so by software. A lot of Jobs presentations early on were designed to focus on where the product had huge advantages, and draw discussion away from the places where it did not. For example, Jobs did not spend tons of time on enterprise email (which at the time Blackberry had a huge advantage in) or on the huge catalog of apps (which MS Windows CE had, comparatively, at the time).