But is that such a big secret to get all hyped up about?
When you are in multi-million dollar negotiations with another company you don't go writing on twitter about it.
It would be bigger news if Apple hand't been meeting with people regarding the iPad. WSJ / NYTimes will have the first reviews like they always do. Furthermore, all the big publishers will be having similar meetings to get their content shipping.
He didn't disclose anything unknown about the device. Jobs is known to hugely overreact, this seems solidly in that department.