[comrade_ogilvy]

>Compelling someone to lie after the facts have changed seems to me a far murkier legal area (and perhaps easier to fight in court).

And IIRC C-level executives are required to certify they believe their quarterly reports are, to the best of their knowledge, accurate, under Sarbanes-Oxley. There is a ticking clock here, once Apple asserts that the nebulous statement is relevant to the value of the company, because some customers are tetchy about their data.