I won’t try to convince you, but go watch the Motorola ROKR introduction from Steve Jobs on YouTube, then watch his introduction of the iPhone at MacWorld 2007.
You can tell when he’s not just selling something, but believes that what he says he is selling is what he is selling.
This is the same Steve Jobs that said on stage Samsung's original Galaxy Tab 7" defeated the purpose of a tablet because he needed to file his fingers down to use it.
He knew full well an iPad Mini was coming the year after. He just had to sell what was on the shelves now.
Ha! I remember that. But if you recall, the first iPad mini was 7.9” and subsequent iPads mini stayed close to the 8” watermark. A decade later my iPhone is a lot closer to 7” at 6.7”.
You can tell when he’s not just selling something, but believes that what he says he is selling is what he is selling.