The author of this article seems to be unfamiliar with the concept of an internship. Peter is an intern because he's still in college, not because of some mythical gauntlet that new Apple engineers have to run through before Steve himself hands them keys to the repos.
Looks a bit like the notification system I've seen on an Android device (I can be wrong though). Personally I was more into this notification concept which was made by a Swedish designer: http://vimeo.com/21208357
If this is true, and if this is about his notification system... is there not a fine dose of irony in the fact that Apple hired a guy, because he made a product, that functioned only on jail broken phones, which Apple fights hard to prevent from existing.
I sometimes suspect them of not really minding jailbreaking that much. Sure, they want to make sure it's not widespread, and the constant treadmill of crack-and-patch is enough to keep the hoi polloi from trying it. It provides a useful escape valve for the types that would never be confined by jailbreaking anyway. You don't think they could make it harder to crack if they tried?
Apple doesn't seem to fight jailbreakers at all. It seems that most jailbreaks rely on a security hole, and Apple has a responsibility to patch said hole.
Back in iOS 2(?), for example, you could jailbreak your phone by visiting a webpage that automatically executed code on your device. That's SO shady, and I'm SO glad they fixed it.
If Apple actively wanted to stop users doing this, I'd imagine they'd have very little trouble given they have full control over the hardware and software stack.
In what way is Apple fighting them? Other than fixing the security holes used to jailbreak.
A jailbreaker already gave Apple their money for the hardware. It's like how Apple doesn't go after software piracy all that much, relying on a serial number at best. OS X doesn't even use one.
I wonder if this fellow wishes we'd all STFU about this already. At some point he seemed to realize that being cute is not the better part of discretion. If I had come across this, I wouldn't have spread the news around; he could find himself like the engineer who had the iPhone 4 stolen from him before this kid has a chance to prove his worth within the company.
"Apple's usual ways is beating down the little guy."
Some sort of cognitive bias is probably at play here since Apple engineers are generally not allowed to publicly comment on most of their work while Arl-- the people who get screwed over by Apple tend to be more vocal.
