Comment by teruakohatu

I think it is better to be charitable. I think he does genuinely believe what he wrote is what happened. His PDF book is free and Creative Commons.

There could be many reasons he waited this long. Maybe he waited until he was retired and would not face blowback. Maybe he just has some free time.

It is very plausible that WebOS could have been an equal peer to iOS and Android. CEOs have killed off projects that might have been great commercial successes while perusing short term gains.

In a decade's time we might hear a story from inside ATI or AMD how they killed off their chance of beating CUDA for short term gains.