...the link is to a full transcript of the meeting. Sure, you weren't personally invited, but hardly a secretive off the record briefing.
> Steve always ran things incredibly tight lipped, no need for transparency that's part of the Apple experience
After the controversy about the iPhone 4's antennas he did a very similar briefing to this with a number of reporters, and Apple pre-announced the Intel transition many months before it actually happened. Jobs would happily tell you what was coming down the line when it suited him to do so.
And yet to this day there are people who will insist that there was no controversy and it was just a bunch of troublemakers who were anti Apple and that Apple was just being generous to appease them.