[simonw]

"it has to be read like the manipulative, narcissist-speak that it is"

That's a very strong claim. I'm not seeing that at all. What causes you to interpret it that way?

[mike_hearn]

It's because they say they don't want to call for competitors and then immediately do so in the second half of the same sentence. It probably wasn't written with bad intent, but you can see why people might find it a strange choice.