I don't think that it is, but rather that I didn't give the guy the benefit of doubt, and as someone else said my reading of it was overly cynical which I agree with. I still think he worded it poorly. To me, it sounded like he was suggesting that was an alternate, even equally viable, strategy for developing the product, and that it was the goodwill of his team and Google that led them to do the Explorer program. But, I don't think that's the case anymore.