[sjs7007]

Claim two sounded a bit suspicious so I checked the quote:

" He promised, despite unhappy faces from his engineers, that it would take fewer years than he had fingers on his right hand before they were available to everyone – although the price wasn't mentioned."

[simondotau]

Indeed. In fact if one were to be pedantic, he said fewer than five, so his prediction was really for 2016, not 2017.

[sideshowb]

Anyone using the word fewer deserves pedantry (no less)