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When Apple Inc. made an announcement on Thursday, it wasn't the highly anticipated iPhone 5. Steve Jobs, a showman, love touting Apple's new devices, and launching Apple's best smartphone yet would have been a fitting end. But Jobs abruptly exited as chief executive before he could unveil Apple's latest innovation.

Here are top 10 stupid and lamest reasons why Steve Jobs is leaving the limelight before the iPhone 5 is unveiled.

1. He wants to give Tim Cook a blazing start. Cook doesn't have the charisma of Jobs. But Apple has a device that would officially bring Apple to the top of the smartphone market, so this time, it wouldn't matter if Cook gives a lousy speech. It doesn't matter if the restaurant has bad music if it serves the finest steak.

2. He opted to show Bill the phone first. Although demanding and highly temperamental, Jobs has friends. Bill Clinton is among the closest, being able to convince Jobs to let him use the latter's BMW motorcycle displayed at the living room. But Bill, who wanted to brag to everyone as the first to own the iPhone 5, lost the package to Monica or whoever. Jobs is still waiting for Bill's call. But Bill is waiting for the Apple store in Manhattan to release the iPhone 5 before he's giving Jobs his feedback.

3. He is doing a Nokia a favor. Remember that Apple was once embroiled in a multi-billion dollar intellectual property infringement lawsuit with Finnish handset maker Nokia Oyj. Apple agreed to make a one-time payment to Nokia, plus ongoing royalty fees, plus one more. Nokia's struggling right now and so Jobs has agreed to defer release of the iPhone 5 until Nokia releases its Windows phones.

4. He wants to feel better before unveiling the device. When he launches a new device, media doesn't only report about the new features of the device, but also how thin, frail or how much he lost weight. If Jobs wears something else instead of his usual St. Croix long-sleeved turtleneck, Levi's 501 blue jeans and New Balance sneakers, media would probably also report what he wore.

5. He is redesigning the iPhone 5. Jobs has asked Apple designers to focus not only on design and aesthetics, ease to use, and now, third, EASE TO LOCATE. In the past three months alone, Apple sold 20.3 million black or white iPhones. With the demand for the device still soaring, everybody will soon have iPhones. When you lose or leave your iPhone somewhere, do you have to waste your or somebody else's time checking everyone's iPhone to find out if it's yours? Another option for Jobs is putting something like a license plate (but does anybody memorize his car's plate number?).And remember, they're getting old and could become forgetful. Jobs, is 56, his friend Warren Buffet (the Oracle of Omaha) is 80, and frienemy Bill Gates, 55.

6. He's spending the summer at a beach at a tropical country. Jobs, hasn't had a real vacation in decades. Steve brought his iPhone but he's not answering Tim, who has questions raging from the locations of the antennae to where to put all the turtleneck shirts cluttered in the office. Their only deal was iPhone 5 will only be released at the end of the summer. However, in the Caribbean, Hawaii, Maldives or some other tropical country, it's summer all year long. Steve's still enjoying his summer now. And Tim couldn't locate him because Steve turned off the location-tracking tool in his iPhone.

7. He wants people do things the right way. His present models of the iPhone have been jail-broken. It wasn't an easy road to the top for Jobs -- he dropped out of college, picked up Coke bottles for money, saw himself being kicked out from the company he founded. Now jail-breaking the phone to get free apps, is depriving the developers (and of course, Apple) any remuneration. He wants to have an iPhone 5 that won't allow anybody to cheat.

8. He's waiting for the latest version of Angry Birds. Like millions of others, Jobs is addicted to the birds vs. bad pigs game. And he's agreed to pay $0.99 to Rovio for every Angry Birds game that will be built-in in iPhone 5. Rovio has promised to release a 1,000-level, CGI, HD version of the game. Jobs is still waiting.

9. He doesn't want the tech blogs to get it right. Many tech blogs and news agencies are already reporting the release date for the iPhone 5, notwithstanding a gag order issued by Jobs to his employees. Using sources life "suppliers who do not want to be identified", "unnamed employees", or "someone familiar with the Plans, tech blogs have reported a release date of the iPhone in June, July, August, September, October or 2012. Jobs doesn't like snitches.

10. He's unveiling the smartphone at "giant spaceship" headquarters. Jobs in June explained to the city council of Cupertino, California, Apple's plans for its newest headquarters called "Apple Campus 2" -- a 2.8 million-square-foot facility that looks like a giant spaceship and is covered in huge pieces of curved glass. Being a show-off, Jobs probably wants to unveil the iPhone 5 at the new headquarters.

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